Geometrical characteristics of detonation diamond particles by the data of small-angle X-ray scattering

The authors have been the first to study morphology of the detonation carbon—the product of detonation decomposition of multicomponent explosives under the oxygen deficiency conditions—by the small-angle A-ray scattering method. The detonation carbon is shown to be a discrete set of particles in the form of oblate spheroids (with an axes ratio ranging between 1 : 20 and 1 : 25), which have been formed by an amorphous carbon component and contain at least one particle of the crystalline phase—the detonation diamond. It is the for first time that the geometrical dimensions of a particle have been calculated.