The growth of carbon nanoparticles during the detonation of trinitrotoluene

In this work we present experimental data on measuring distributions of small- angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) during cast trinitrotoluene (TNT) detonation of 30 and 40 mm in diameter. Dynamics of average size of condensed carbon nanoparticle inkreases has been restored from experimental SAXS data. The work was carried out at the SYRAFEEMA (Synchrotron Radiation Facility for Exploring Energetic Materials) station at accelerator complex VEPP- 4M (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics). We observe minimal size of particles of order of 2 nm directly behind the detonation front. Later, the average size of carbon nanoparticles increases within 4-12 μs and reach values of 6 nm.