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Michael E Sitzman

William H Gilligan

Gregory S Lee

Philip F Pagoria

Alfred G Stern

Jesse Stuart Moran

R Jason Jouet

Dinitropyrazolopyrazole-amine salts are used as burn modifier ingredients in gun propellant compositions.

Dinitropyrazolopyrazole-amine salts useful in gun propellants

Explosive compounds of the formulas ##STR1## where R is --CH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.2 CH.sub.3, --CH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2)b.3 --CH.sub.2 CF(NO.sub.2).sub.2, or --CH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 (NO.sub.2) and R' is --CH.sub.2 CF(NO.sub.2).sub.2 or --CH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 (NO.sub.2); ##STR2## where R is --CH.sub.2 C(NO.sub.2).sub.3 or --CH.sub.2 CF(NO.sub.2).sub.2 ; ##STR3##

Pentafluorothio polynitroaliphatic explosives

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