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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1997
Harold Eugene Johnston, Dickson, TN (US);
Robert B Wardle, Logan, UT (US);
Cordant Technologies Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A process of crystallizing CL-20 is disclosed. In the process, a wet CL-20 solvent/CL-20 solution is dried by azeotropic distillation of a CL-20 solvent/water azeotrope. Removal of water from the CL-20 solution permits crystallization of high density CL-20. A low density, CL-20 non-solvent is added to the resulting dry CL-20 solvent/CL-20 solution to cause precipitation of .epsilon.-polymorph CL-20. The CL-20 crystals are separated from the non-solvent and the solvent by adding sufficient water to displace the non-solvent and the solvent from the surface of the CL-20 crystals. In this fashion, the .epsilon.-polymorph CL-20 is made wet for later handling, packaging, and shipping.