Fuel composition containing lithium, calcium and fluorocarbon

Claim 1

A fuel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said carbon compound comprises poly (monochlororifluoroethylene) having a mean molecular weight of between approximately 900 and 10,000.

Claim 5

A method of manufacturing mouldings from a solid fuel suitable for producing calorific energy by reaction with SF6, said fuel comprising a mixture of a solid or highly viscous halogenated carbon compound in which all the carbon valences not used up by carbon to carbon bonds are either fully saturated with fluorine or partly with fluorine and partly with chlorine and a lithium containing composition wherein lithium is present alone or in a mixture or in an alloy with a metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, calcium, potassium, magnesium and sodium, the ratio of the carbon compounds to the lithium containing composition being sufficient upon ignition of the composition to react maximally with 30 percent by weight of the metal present in the lithium containing composition, the heat being produced thereby being at least sufficient to melt the reaction products formed as well as any unreacted portion of the lithium containing composition, comprising forming said fuel into a moulding the volume of which corresponds to the volume of the fuel at the temperature reached after ignition of the fuel, said fuel being moulded in an atmosphere comprising SF6 or a volatile fluorcarbon compound thereby incorporating into the resultant moulded fuel a desired amount of said SF6 or volatile flurocarbon compound.