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Even a single excess electron or ion migrating on the surface of sensitiveexplosives can catalyze their gradual exothermic decomposition. Mechanismsunderlying such a charge-induced gradual thermal decomposition of highlysensitive explosives can be different. If sensitive explosive is a polarliquid, intense charge-dipole attraction between excess surface charges andsurrounding explosive molecules can result in repetitive attempts of solvationof these charges by polar explosive molecules. Every attempt of suchuncompleted nonequilibrium solvation causes local exothermic decomposition ofthermolabile polar molecules accompanied by further thermal jumping unsolvatedexcess charges to new surface sites. Thus, ionized mobile hot spots emerge oncharged explosive surface. Stochastic migration of ionized hot spots onexplosive surface causes gradual exothermic decomposition of the whole mass ofthe polar explosive. The similar gradual charge-catalyzed exothermicdecomposition of both polar and nonpolar highly sensitive explosives can bealso caused by intense charge-dipole attacks of surrounding water vapormolecules electrostatically attracted from ambient humid air and stronglyaccelerated towards charged sites on explosive surfaces. Emission of electrons,photons and heat from ionized hot spots randomly migrating on charged surfaceof highly sensitive explosive aerosol nanoparticles converts such particlesinto the form of short-circuited thermionic nanobatteries.

Why not only electric discharge but even a minimum charge on the surface  of highly sensitive explosives can catalyze their gradual exothermic  decomposition and how a cloud of unipolar charged explosive particles turns  into ball lightning