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Modern requirements to smokeless gas generating compositions for automobile safety bags are described. Possible ways to decrease combustion temperature and the concentrations of toxic gases in combustion products are analyzed. Thermal stability of the potential components of gas-generating compositions (organic compounds) and the phase state of ammonium nitrate within the temperature range from -50 to +100 ^oC are investigated. The routes of phase stabilization of ammonium nitrate with organic compounds containing no metals or halogens are proposed. The regularities of combustion of the compositions are investigated, the ways of a substantial increase in the combustion rate of compositions based on ammonium nitrate are proposed.