“…Previous work on the thermal decomposition of NC produced the following gaseous by-products: NO, CO2, CO, N2O, N2, H2O, NO2, HCN, CH2O, HONO, CH4, C2H4O, C3H4O, and C3H6O (Urbanski 1964;Oyumi and Brill 1986;Wolfram et al 1955;Kaur et al 1986). The work reported here observed all of these components except N2, NO2, and HONO, which are either short-lived reactive species that do not survive the chromatographic process, or not well separated from the other large permanent gas peaks.…”