Powder Too Hot

[lazyengineer]

Poon & Lazy,

Thanks for your thoughts. I did not ever think of the humidity, GA in the summertime is very much like living in a sauna.

That would be a very interesting test with T & H.

I can really get down in the weeds about stuff like this sometimes.


Chuck

Please do! We will be here waiting.

Now T CAN have an effect on performance, as some powders light off more vigorously at warmer kernel T. Buy that's not degradation or damage from the exposure.

As to the science of powder degradation, fairly fascinating. From what I can tell, degradation begets degradation, from the byproducts. So they put in stabilizers to consume such. As long as there, powder is effectively indistinguishable from brand new in basically every way. Once gone, degradation goes quickly. But it takes many decades to get to exhausted stabilizers. And yes, high T does shorten that - though your conditions aren't of note, so long as you return home and store it ok.