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Investigation was performed of the effect of an external electric field on the completeness of combustion of ASD-1 aluminum powder in an airflow and on the disperse composition of condensed combustion products. It is established that for an oxidizer-to-fuel ratio of 0.8 and a combustor inlet flow rate of 10 m/sec, the application of an electric field increases the completeness of aluminum combustion from 43 to 75%. In this case, the sizes of submicron particles of aluminum oxide practically do not change, and the mass average sizes and the mass concentration of the 4÷50 μm fraction decrease, due to the activating effect of the electric field on the vapor-phase combustion of aluminum particles. A decrease of the mass concentration of the size fraction larger than 50 μm from 12 to 3% under the action of the electric field suppress markedly the agglomeration of aluminum particles during combustion in air.