Kinetics of electrical conductivity of TATB detonation products as an indicator of growth of carbon nanoparticles

Two stages of growth of electrical conductivity of detonation products of plastic-bonded TATB are registered: a fast stage with a characteristic time of 0.1 $\mu$sec, which is commensurable with the time of chemical reactions, and a subsequent slow stage, which lasts for 0.5–1.0 $\mu$sec until specimen unloading begins. Under the assumption of the thermal mechanism of conductivity emergence, the second stage could be caused by an increase in temperature due to slow energy release in the course of growth of carbon nanoparticles in explosion products.