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EXOTHERMIC CHEMICAL REACTION [1 record]

Record 1 2006-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
CONT

"pyrotechnic substance": ... a substance or a mixture of substances designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of these as the result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
CONT

«matière pyrotechnique» : [...] matière (ou mélange de matières) destinée à produire un effet calorifique, lumineux, sonore, gazeux ou fumigène ou une combinaison de tels effets, grâce à des réactions chimiques exothermiques auto-entretenues non détonantes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
DEF

Reacción que se produce con desprendimiento de calor.

OBS

Los intercambios térmicos permiten definir la noción de calor de reacción [...] y de clasificar las reacciones en exotérmicas (que desprenden calor, engendrado por la ruptura de enlaces) y endotérmicas, que absorben calor [...]

OBS

Las reacciones químicas suelen estar acompañadas de efectos térmicos; se denominan exotérmicas las que transcurren con liberación de calor y endotérmicas aquellas en las que se produce absorción.

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