Okay, let's do it differently. Let's not add xenon to the original flash powder, let's put some excess PTFE and surround the powder with iron instead.
A mix of aluminium and more PTFE than stoichiometry with aluminium requires, and an outer layer of powdered iron. Iron becomes fluorinated together
with aluminium and forms FeF3.
Later we make another powder, with FeF3 instead of PTFE. This compound definitely does decompose and liberate fluorine in macroscopic amounts at high
temp, and requires lower temp to do this. And it's this we put into a pressurized bomb with xenon.
Will this work?
Of course, all powders are lit remotely, from 100 meters in an uninhabited locale. It's fluorine we are dealing with, after all.
[Edited on 6-8-2015 by ave369] |