FOX -- 7 Cp PREDICTION FOX -7 Specific heat prediction from a proposed nominal / generic specific heat for CHNO energetic materials.

The importance of the specific heat (Cp) of CHNO energetic polymers relative to their impact shock sensitivity has been documented in U.S. Army technical reports and papers in the shock compression of condensed matter conferences. Another recent U.S. Army technical report (AMR-SS-06-35) documents a proposed nominal / generic (N/G) Cp for CHNO energetic materials. The motivation for this proposed N/G Cp was it's utilization to predict Cp for energetic polymers whose Cp was unknown. The present paper documents the ``successful'' application of the (N/G) Cp concept to predict the Cp for a relatively new CHNO explosive, FOX--7. This application is called ``successful'' because it agrees very well with a more complex and sophisticated FOX-7 Cp prediction contained in the SCCM-2005 conference proceedings.