I have got a question about the oxygen balance. Let’s take for example RDX and KClO4. RDX has an oxygen balance value about –38% and KClO4 an oxygen balance value about +39%. When is the explosive more powerful? If you mix both compounds, so that the oxygen balance is 0, or if you take only RDX?
Has the mix a higher explosive velocity, or decreases the KClO4 as an impurity the strength of the RDX?

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Mephisto

Balancing the oxygen balance to zero would increase heat and thereby energy output because all atoms are fully oxidized. I guess it would lower the VoD somewhat because of the reaction going from simple decomposition to a reaction between two compounds. However, one can not apply this rule if the other compound itself is also an explosive, like in ANNM.