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NuKE InfoJournal #7
August 1993
% Uncommon And Rare Explosives %
Table Of Contents
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Entry Number Chemical Name/Topic
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à Introduction
á Technical Notes
1 Acetyl Nitrate
2 Ammonium Picrate
3 Benzoyl Peroxide
4 Chlorine Dioxide
5 Chlorine Heptoxide
6 Chlorine Monoxide
7 Cyanogen Azide
8 Diazoacetic Ester
9 Diazomethane
10 2,4-Dinitroresorcinol
11 Erythrityl Tertranitrate
12 Ethyl Ether
13 Fluorine Nitrate
14 Fluorine Perchlorate
15 Gold, Explosive
16 Hydroxylamine
17 Isopropyl Ether
18 Lead Azide
19 Mannitol Hexanitrate
20 Mercuric Oxycyanide
21 Methyl Nitrate
22 Nitramine, Tetralite, Tetryl.
23 Nitrogen Chloride
24 Nitrogen Selenide
25 Nitroguanidine
26 Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, PETN
27 Pentrinitrol
28 Pentryl
29 Peracetic Acid
30 Performic Acid
31 Potassium Picrate
32 Propargyl Nitrate
33 n-Propyl Nitrate
34 Silver Perchlorate
35 Tetranitromethane
36 Tetrasilane
37 Tetrasulfur Tetranitride
38 sym-Trinitrobenzene
39 Trinitromethane
40 Uranyl Nitrate
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% Introduction %
This file contains the entries of uncommon or rare explosives.
By this, it is meant that the following compounds have explosive properties,
but are not used as commercial/military explosives and/or they are generally
unknown to the public. They may not be used as commercial/military
explosives for a number of reason, some of which may be: lack of stability,
cost of materials, difficulty of synthesis, cost of synthesis, toxicity, etc.
The general format of the compound entries will be as follows:
Entry: Entry Number
Name: Common Name
IUPAC Name: IUPAC Designated Name
Condensed Formula: Molecular Formula / Structural Condensed Formula
Physical Properties: Some physical properties of the explosive
Explosive Properties: The explosive properties of the compound
Manufacture: The manufacturing procedure, and lab preparation
procedure (if given)
Use: The use
Toxicity (if known): Toxicity, and side effects if known
NOTE: Most of the following compounds are highly dangerous. Due to this
fact, this article has been written for the knowledge of the
explosives rather than the experience of making them. Thus, the
manufacture of each explosive compound will not be given in a step
by step "how to" fashion, but rather just the bare minimum reactant
chemicals (if given). The author holds no responsibility for the
way any individual, or group uses the following information.
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% Technical Notes %
Being interested in explosives as I am, and not seeing any
new files on explosives (or new explosives themselves), I decided to
write this file, based on a huge chemistry reference manual containing
more than 10,000 chemical compounds. I hope many others will find it as
useful as I have.
The elimination process for chemicals occured as follows:
(1) Any chemicals that are commonly known to the public were
eliminated. Examples are 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT),
1,2,3-Propanetriol trinitrate (nitroglycerin), and
cellulose hexanitrate (guncotton).
(2) Any chemicals that were listed or described in any other file
i have seen were eliminated. Examples are ammonium tri-iodide,
acetone peroxide, and mercury fulminate. I gave the picric acid
salts, and a few other explosives, an exception to this rule
because I think they are important explosives.
(3) The chemical has to be explosive by itself, not a redox or other
type of reaction (e.g. dust/particle explosion, or gas/combustible
explosion). This eliminated chemicals such as potassium
permanganate. I gave the chemicals ethyl ether, and isopropyl ether
an exception to this rule as they form an unknown explosive peroxide
readily that conforms to all other rules.
Any compounds that passed the three processes are included in this
file. I regret any N/A's (not available) and will try to find
the missing information in the future.
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Entry: 1
Name: Acetyl Nitrate
IUPAC Name: Acetic acid anhydride with nitric acid
Condensed Formula: C2H3NO4 / CH3COONO2
Physical Properties: Fuming, colorless, hygroscopic liquid. bp 22 c.
Explosive Properties: Should be stored in a solution of P2O5 to stabilize
it. Always explodes when heated above 60 c or comes
into contact with HgO. Explosions have also occured
with ground glass surfaces.
Manufacture: Preparation from acetic anhydride and N2O5.
Use: In nitrations to introduce a single nitro group in
an ortho position on an aromatic ring.
Toxicity (if known): Irritant, corrosive.
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Entry: 2
Name: Ammonium Picrate
IUPAC Name: 2,4,6,-Trinitrophenol ammonium salt
Condensed Formula: C6H6N4O7
Physical Properties: Bright yellow bitter scales or orthorhombic crystals.
d 1.72. Slightly soluble in alcohol.
Explosive Properties: Explodes easily from heat or shock.
Manufacture: By subsitution of the ammonia group (NH4) on
the hydrogen of the 1-hydroxyl group.
Use: In explosives, fireworks, rocket propellants.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 3
Name: Benzoyl Peroxide
IUPAC Name: Dibenzoyl Peroxide
Condensed Formula: C14H10O4 / (C6H5CO)2O2
Physical Properties: Crystals. mp 103 -106 c. Sparingly soluble in water.
Explosive Properties: May explode when heated.
Manufacture: Prepared by the interaction of benzoyl chloride and a
cooled solution of sodium peroxide.
Use: Oxidizing agent in bleaching oils, flours, etc.
Catalyst in the plastics industry; initiator in
polymerization.
Toxicity (if known): Non toxic in small amounts.
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Entry: 4
Name: Chlorine Dioxide
IUPAC Name: Chlorine Peroxide
Condensed Formula: ClO2
Physical Properties: Strong oxidizing yellow to reddish yellow gas at room
temp. Unplesant odor similar to that of chlorine
and reminiscent of that of nitric acid. Unstable in
light; stable in dark if pure. Reacts violently with
organic materials. mp -59 c, bp 11 c.
Explosive Properties: In concentrations in excess of 10% at atmospheric
pressure it is easily detonated by sunlight, heat,
contact with mercury or carbon monoxide.
Manufacture: Prepared from chlorine and sodium chlorite; from
potassium chlorate and sulfuric acid; by passing NO2
through a column of sodium chlorate.
Use: Bleaching cellulose, paper-pulp, flour, leather, fats
and oils, textiles, beeswax; purification of water;
tast and odor control of water; cleaning and
detanning leather; oxidizing agent; bactericide and
antiseptic.
Toxicity (if known): May be highly irritating to skin and mucous membranes
of respiratory tract. May cause pumonary edema.
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Entry: 5
Name: Chlorine Heptoxide
IUPAC Name: Dichlorine heptoxide
Condensed Formula: Cl2O7
Physical Properties: Colorless, very volitile oily liquid. mp -91.5 c, bp
-82 c. Slowly hydrolyzed by water forming perchloric
acid.
Explosive Properties: Explodes violently upon concussion or on contact with
a flame or iodine.
Manufacture: Prepared by dehydration of perchloric acid with P2O5.
Use: Catalyst in cellulose esterification.
Toxicity (if known): May be irritating to skin, mucous membranes.
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Entry: 6
Name: Chlorine Monoxide
IUPAC Name: Dichlorine monoxide
Condensed Formula: Cl2O
Physical Properties: Yellowish-brown gas. Disagreeable, penetrating odor.
mp -120.6 c, bp 2.2 c. One volume of water will
dissolve more than 100 volumes Cl2O with formation
of HClO.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on contact with organic material. Can also
be cause to explode by a spark or by heating.
Manufacture: Prepared from yellow mercuric oxide and chlorine.
Use: Chlorinating agent.
Toxicity (if known): Intensely irritating to eyes, skin, mucous membranes,
respiratory tract.
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Entry: 7
Name: Cyanogen Azide
IUPAC Name: Carbon pernitride
Condensed Formula: CN4 / (N-)=(N+)=N-CðN
Physical Properties: Clear colorless oily liquid. Half-life of a 27%
solution in acetonitrile (stabalizer) is 15 days
at room temp, more stable at lower temps. Can
be handled relativly safely in solvents.
Explosive Properties: The pure azide detonates violently upon thermal,
electrical or mechanical shock.
Manufacture: Prepared by suspending NaN3 in dry acetonitrile and
distilling cyanogen chloride into the cooled
suspension.
Use: In organic synthesis.
Toxicity (if known): Assumed to be toxic.
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Entry: 8
Name: Diazoacetic Ester
IUPAC Name: Ethyl diazoacetate
Condensed Formula: C4H6N2O2 / (N-)=(N+)=CHCOOC2H5
Physical Properties: Yellow oil. Pungent odor. Very volitile. mp -22 c.
Slightly soluble in water.
Explosive Properties: This substance is very explosive. Distillation, even
under reduced pressure, is dangerous. Explodes on
contact with concentrated H2SO4
Manufacture: Prepared by the action of sodium nitrite on glycine
ethyl ester hydrochloride.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 9
Name: Diazomethane
IUPAC Name: Azimethylene
Condensed Formula: CH2N2 / CH2=(N+)=(N-)
Physical Properties: Yellow gas. mp -145 c, bp -23 c. Copper powder and
solid calcium chloride causes active decomposition
with the evolution of nitrogen and the formation of
insoluble white flakes of polymethylene (CH2)ü.
Explosive Properties: The undiluted liquid and concentrated solutions may
explode violently, especially if impurities are
present. Gaseous diazomethane may explode on heating
to 100 c or on rough glass surfaces. Alkali metals
also produce explosions with diazomethane.
Manufacture: Prepared from chloroform and hydrazine by reaction
with potassium hydroxide; from KOH and nitrosomethyl-
urea. These methods yield gaseous diazomethane. The
following procedures yield ether solutions of
diazomethane. From N-nitroso-á-methylaminoisobutyl
methyl ketone in ether and isopropanol by reaction
with sodium isopropoxide or from the same ketone in
ether by reaction with sodium cyclohexoxide. In the
laboratory diazomethane may be prepared most simply
by the action of alkali on the commercially available
N-methyl-N-nitroso-N'-nitroguanidine.
Use: Powerful methylating agent for acidic compounds such
as carboxylic acids, phenols, enols.
Toxicity (if known): Very toxic. Insidious poison (a well ventilated hood
is absolutely necessary), avoid vapor. Strong
irritant. Does not cause discernible reaction at the
time of contact, but later even in minute amounts,
produces an inflammatory reaction. Hypersensitivity
results which makes it impossible to work with
diazomethane without attacks of asthma and associated
symptoms.
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Entry: 10
Name: 2,4-Dinitroresorcinol
IUPAC Name: 2,4-Dinitro-1,3-benzenediol
Condensed Formula: C6H4N2O6
Physical Properties: Yellow crystals, mp 146-148 c. Very slightly soluble
in cold water or alcohol.
Explosive Properties: Explodes when stongly heated.
Manufacture: --Can be bought commercially (through chem company).
Use: For dyeing fabrics mordanted with iron a green color.
As a reagent for Co (brown-red ppt) and for Fe (olive
green color).
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 11
Name: Erythrityl Tertranitrate
IUPAC Name: (R*,S*)-1,2,3,4-Butane-tetroltetranitrate
Condensed Formula: C4H6N4O12
Physical Properties: Leaflets from alcohol, mp 61 c. Soluble in alcohol,
ether, glycerol. Insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on percussion.
Manufacture: Made by the nitration of erythritol
Use: Coronary vasodilator.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 12
Name: Ethyl Ether
IUPAC Name: 1,1'-Oxybisethane
Condensed Formula: C4H10O / C2H5OC2H5
Physical Properties: Mobile, very heave flammable liquid. Vapor heavier
than air. Characteristic, sweetish, pungent odor,
more agreeable than chloroform. Burning taste.
mp -116.3 (stable crystals)/-123.3 (metastable
crystals). Air-ether mixture containing more than
1.85 volume-% of ether vapor are explosive hazards.
Explosive Properties: Ethyl Ether is not explosive in itself, but when
dried tends to forms highly explosive percussion,
heat, and friction sensitive peroxides.
Manufacture: Produced on a large scale by dehydration of ethanol
or by hydration of ethylene, both processes being
carried out in the presence of sulfuric acid.
Use: In the manufacture of gunpower. As a primer in
gasoline engines. Solvent for waxes, fats, oils,
perfumes, etc. Easily removable extractant of
tissues.
Toxicity (if known): Mildy irritating to skin, mucous membranes.
Inhalation of high concentrations causes narcosis,
unconsciousness. Death may occur due to respiratory
paralysis.
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Entry: 13
Name: Fluorine Nitrate
IUPAC Name: Nitroxy fluoride
Condensed Formula: FNO3 / FONO2
Physical Properties: Colorless gas. Moldy acrid odor. mp -175 c, bp
-45.9 c. Soluble in acetone. Powerful oxidizing
agent.
Explosive Properties: The liquid explodes on slight percussion.
Manufacture: Prepared by the action of fluorine on nitric acid.
Use: Oxidizing agent in rocket propellants.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 14
Name: Fluorine Perchlorate
IUPAC Name: Chlorine tetroxyfluoride
Condensed Formula: ClFO4 / FOCLO3
Physical Properties: Colorless gas. Pungent, acrid odor. mp -167.3 c,
bp -15.9 c.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on the slightest provocation, i.e., on
contact with rought surfaces, dust, grease, rubber,
on melting, distilling, etc.
Manufacture: Prepared by passing fluorine over cold 72% aqueous
perchloric acid in platinum apparatus.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): Attacks the lungs even in traces.
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Entry: 15
Name: Gold, Explosive
IUPAC Name: "Fulminating Gold"
Condensed Formula: N/A
Physical Properties: Dark brown powder.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on heating or rubbing to give gold, nitrogen
and ammonia. The exact composition of the compound
is unknown since it is too explosive to be dried.
Therefore the only elements that can be determined
are gold, nitrogen, and chlorine.
Manufacture: Obtained by the action of ammonia on auric chloride
or ammonium chloride on auric oxide.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 16
Name: Hydroxylamine
IUPAC Name: Hydroxylamine
Condensed Formula: H3NO / NH2OH
Physical Properties: Unstable large white flakes or needles, mp 33 c, bp
58 c. Very soluble in water, liquid ammonia and
methanol.
Explosive Properties: Detonates in test tube heated with flame.
Manufacture: N/A
Use: As reducing agent in photography; in synthesis and
analytical chemistry; to purify aldehydes and
ketones. As antioxidant for fatty acis and soaps.
As dehairing agent for hides.
Toxicity (if known): Skin irritant. May cause methemoglobinemia,
sulfhemoglobinemia, cyanosis, convulsions,
hypotension and coma.
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Entry: 17
Name: Isopropyl Ether
IUPAC Name: 2,2'-Oxybis[propane]
Condensed Formula: C6H14O
Physical Properties: Liquid. mp -60 c, bp 68-69 c.
Explosive Properties: Isopropyl Ether is not explosive in itself, but when
unstabalized with p-benzylaminophenol it tends to
forms highly explosive percussion, heat, and friction
sensitive peroxides.
Manufacture: N/A. Safer to buy through a chemical company.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): Mildy irritating to skin, mucous membranes.
Inhalation of high concentrations causes narcosis,
unconsciousness. Death may occur due to respiratory
paralysis.
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Entry: 18
Name: Lead Azide
IUPAC Name: Lead Azide
Condensed Formula: N6Pb / Pb(N3)2
Physical Properties: Needles or white powder. Heat of formation at 25 c:
+110.5 kcal/mol.
Explosive Properties: Explodes at 350 c or on percussion.
Manufacture: Prepared from sodium azide and lead nitrate.
Use: As a primer in explosives.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 19
Name: Mannitol Hexanitrate
IUPAC Name: Mannitol nitrate
Condensed Formula: C6H8N6O18
Physical Properties: Long needles in regular clusters. mp 106-108 c.
Soluble in alcohol, insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on percussion. It is stable at ordinary
tempatures so that it may be used commercially,
but it is distinctly less stable than nitroglycerol
at 75 c or above.
Manufacture: Nitration of mannitol.
Use: Vasodilator.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 20
Name: Mercuric Oxycyanide
IUPAC Name: Mercury cyanide oxide
Condensed Formula: C2Hg2N2O / HgO.Hg(CN)2
Physical Properties: White, orthorhombic crystals or crystal powder.
Explosive Properties: It explodes when touched with a flame or by
percussion.
Manufacture: N/A. Cheaper and easier to buy as a mixture of
33% mercuric oxycyanide and 67% mercuric cyanide from
a chemical company.
Use: Topical antiseptic.
Toxicity (if known): Violent poison.
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Entry: 21
Name: Methyl Nitrate
IUPAC Name: Nitric acid methyl ester
Condensed Formula: CH3NO3 / CH3ONO2
Physical Properties: Liquid. Solid at -83 c, bp 64.6 c. Slightly soluble
in water. Soluble in alcohol, ether.
Explosive Properties: When methyl nitrate reaches it boiling point, it
will explode.
Manufacture: Prepared from methanol and nitric acid in the
presence of sulfuric acid.
Use: Has been used as a rocket propellant. Does not need
external oxygen for combustion.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 22
Name: Nitramine, Tetralite, Tetryl.
IUPAC Name: N-Methyl-N,2,4,6-tetranitrobenzenamine
Condensed Formula: C7H5N5O8 / (NO2)3C6H2N(CH3)NO2
Physical Properties: Yellow crystals. Density of 1.57. mp 130-132 c.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol.
Explosive Properties: Explodes at about 180-190 or on detonation.
Manufacture: N/A
Use: As a pH indicator. Also in explosives.
Toxicity (if known): Irritating to skin and mucous membranes. Causes
yellow staining to skin and hair.
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Entry: 23
Name: Nitrogen Chloride
IUPAC Name: Nitrogen trichloride
Condensed Formula: Cl3N / NCl3
Physical Properties: Yellow, thick, oily liquid. Pungent odor, evaporates
rapidly in air. Very unstable. Insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Explodes when heated to 93 c, subjected to a flash
of direct sunlight or magnesium liquid, sealed in a
glass container at 60 c after 13 seconds, frozen in
liquid air and thawed in vacuo, in contact with
ozone, nitric oxide, grease, and several organic
substances.
Manufacture: Prepared by the action of chlorine gas on ammonium
salts, or by eletrolyzing an acidified solution of
ammonium chloride.
Use: Bleaching of flour (prohibited in the U.S.A.),
wastage control of citrus fruit.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 24
Name: Nitrogen Selenide
IUPAC Name: Selenium nitride
Condensed Formula: N4Se4
Physical Properties: Orange-red , amorphous powder or monoclinic crystals.
density 4.2. Very hygroscopic. Insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Explosive. Assumingly when quickly heated or struck.
Manufacture: Prepared by passing dry ammonia over selenium
tetrachloride; by treating a dilute solution of
selenium oxychloride in benzene with dry ammonia and
washing the precipitate with water and potassium
cyanide; by the action of dry ammonia on a dilute
solution of selenium monochloride in carbon
disulfide; by the action of dry ammonia on diethyl
selenite or dimethyl selenite dissolved in benzene
and washing with potassium cyanide; by reacting
anhydrous, liquid ammonia with selenium dioxide.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 25
Name: Nitroguanidine
IUPAC Name: Nitroguanidine
Condensed Formula: CH4N4O2 / H2NC(NH)NHNO2
Physical Properties: Needles, prisms from water. One litre of water
dissolves 4.4 grams at 25 c. Slightly soluble in
methanol.
Explosive Properties: Explosive of moderate power. Can only be exploded
with a detonator.
Manufacture: Prepared by the action of concentrated H2SO4 on
guanidine nitrate.
Use: Intermediate in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 26
Name: Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, PETN
IUPAC Name: 2,2-Bis[(nitrooxy)-methyl]-1,3-propanediol dinitrate
(ester)
Condensed Formula: C5H8N4O12
Physical Properties: Soluble in acetone. Insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on percussion. More sensitive to shock than
TNT.
Manufacture: Prepared by the nitration of pentaerythritol.
Use: Mainly in the manufacture of detonating fuse
(Primacord). Also as a vasodilater.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 27
Name: Pentrinitrol
IUPAC Name: 2,2-Bis[(nitrooxy)methyl]-1,3-propanediol mononitrate
(ester)
Condensed Formula: C5H9N3O10
Physical Properties: Viscous liquid. mp 32 c. Very soluble in ethanol.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on percussion. More sensitive to shock than
TNT.
Manufacture: N/A
Use: Vasodilator.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 28
Name: Pentryl
IUPAC Name: 2-[Nitro(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)amino]-ethanol nitrate
(ester)
Condensed Formula: C8H6N6O11
Physical Properties: Small, cream colored crystals. mp 129 c.
Explosive Properties: Explodes when heated to 235 c, or upon detonation.
Manufacture: Prepared by the nitration of 2,4-dinitrophenylamino-
ethanol
Use: High explosive. Base charge in detonaters.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 29
Name: Peracetic Acid
IUPAC Name: Ethaneperoxoic acid
Condensed Formula: C2H4O3 / CH3COOOH
Physical Properties: Liquid. Acrid odor. Freely soluble in water.
Stable in a dilute aqueous solution.
Explosive Properties: Explodes violently upon heating to 110 c.
Manufacture: Prepared from acetaldehyde and oxygen in the presence
of cobalt acetate; by the autooxidation of
acetaldehyde. A 50% solution may be obtained from
acetic anhydride, hydrogen peroxide, and sulfuric
acid.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): Strongly irritating to skin and eyes.
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Entry: 30
Name: Performic Acid
IUPAC Name: Methaneperoxoic acid
Condensed Formula: CH2O3 / HCOOOH
Physical Properties: The 90% solution is a colorless liquid. Soluble in
chloroform, benzene. Solutions are unstable, gassing
begin noticeable after a few hours.
Explosive Properties: Prone to explode on contact with metals, their
oxides, reducing substances, or on distillation.
Manufacture: A 90% solution is obtained when a mixture of 20 g
formic acid, 25g 100% H2O2, and 6.5 g H2SO4 is
allowed to interact for 2 hours, and is then
distilled.
Use: For oxidation, epoxidation and hydroxylation
reations.
Toxicity (if known): Irritant.
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Entry: 31
Name: Potassium Picrate
IUPAC Name: 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol potassium salt
Condensed Formula: C6H2KN3O7
Physical Properties: Yellow, reddish, or greenish lustrous needles.
Soluble in 200 parts cold water, 4 parts boiling
water.
Explosive Properties: Explodes when struck or heated.
Manufacture: Prepared by reacting picric acid with potassium.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 32
Name: Propargyl Nitrate
IUPAC Name: 2-Ethyl-2-[(nitrooxy)methyl]-1,3-propanediol
dinitrate (ester)
Condensed Formula: C6H11N3O9
Physical Properties: White powder. mp 51-52 c. Readily soluble in
acetone. Insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Lowest explosive temp: 220 c. Explosive but only
slightly sensitive to shock.
Manufacture: N/A
Use: Coronary vasodilator
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 33
Name: n-Propyl Nitrate
IUPAC Name: Nitric acid propyl ester
Condensed Formula: C3H7NO3 / CH3CH2CH2ONO2
Physical Properties: Pale yellow liquid. Sweet sickly odor. bp 110 c.
Azetrope with water containing 75% C3H7NO3.
Explosive Properties: Heating may cause it to explode.
Manufacture: Prepared by the nitration of propanol with nitric
acid, usually in the presence of urea and ammonium
nitrate or sulfuric acid.
Use: Fuel ignition promoter, in rocket fuel formulations.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 34
Name: Silver Perchlorate
IUPAC Name: Silver Perchlorate
Condensed Formula: AgClO4
Physical Properties: Deliquescent crystals. Freely soluble in water.
Explosive Properties: These compounds explode readily when struck.
Manufacture: Prepared from NOClO4 + AgBr.
Use: In the explosives industry.
Toxicity (if known): Irritating to skin, mucous membranes.
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Entry: 35
Name: Tetranitromethane
IUPAC Name: Tetranitromethane
Condensed Formula: CN4O8 / C(NO2)4
Physical Properties: Pale yellow liquid. mp +13.8 c. Freely soluble in
alcohol. Insoluble in water.
Explosive Properties: Explosive in admixture with toluene. Highly
explosive in the presence of impurities.
Manufacture: Prepared by the nitration of acetic anhydride with
anhydrous nitric acid.
Use: Oxidizer in rocket propellants. To increase centane
number of diesel fuels. Reagent for detecting the
presence of double bonds in organic compounds. Has
bee proposed as irritant war gas.
Toxicity (if known): Skin and lung irritant.
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Entry: 36
Name: Tetrasilane
IUPAC Name: Tetrasilicon
Condensed Formula: H10Si4 / Si4H10
Physical Properties: Liquid. mp approx -90 c, bp 109 c. Decomposes at
room tempature.
Explosive Properties: Explodes on exposure to air.
Manufacture: Prepared by the action of hydrochloric acid on
magnesium silicide.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 37
Name: Tetrasulfur Tetranitride
IUPAC Name: Tetrasulfur Tetranitride
Condensed Formula: N4S4
Physical Properties: Orange-red, monoclinic needles. mp 178 c. Insoluble
in cold water. Slightly soluble in benzene.
Explosive Properties: Heating above 185 c may result in deflagration and
explosion. May decompose explosivly on striking
or at tempatures much above 100 c.
Manufacture: Prepared by the interaction of disulfur dichloride
and ammonia.
Use: N/A
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 38
Name: sym-Trinitrobenzene
IUPAC Name: 1,3,5-Trinitrobenzene
Condensed Formula: C6H3N3O6
Physical Properties: mp 122.5 c. Trinitrobenzene is dimorphous, the other
rare form melts at 61 c.
Explosive Properties: Explodes when rapidly heated. Less sensitive to
impact than TNT, but more powerful and brisant.
Manufacture: Prepared by decarboxylation of trinitrobenzoic acid,
obtained by oxidation of TNT.
Use: Explosives.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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Entry: 39
Name: Trinitromethane
IUPAC Name: Trinitromethane
Condensed Formula: CHN3O6
Physical Properties: Crystals, mp 15 c. Decomposes above 25 c. Soluble
in water, giving an intense yellow solution, although
the dry crystals are pure white.
Explosive Properties: Explodes when heated rapidly.
Manufacture: Prepared by nitration of acetylene with nitric acid.
Prepared from tetranitromethane and K4[Fe(CN6)] in
an aqueous solution.
Use: In the manufacture of explosives and rocket
propellants.
Toxicity (if known): Slightly irritating to eyes, mucous membranes.
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Entry: 40
Name: Uranyl Nitrate
IUPAC Name: Uranyl Nitrate
Condensed Formula: N2O8U / UO2(NO3)2
Physical Properties: Hexahydrate, yellow crystals; greenish luster by
relected light. When shaken, rubbed, or crushed,
the crystals show remarkable tribolum inescence with
occasional detonations.
Explosive Properties: Solutions should not be allowed to stand in sunlight
as explosions may occur. Shaking, rubbing, or
crushing may result in detonation.
Manufacture: N/A
Use: Ad intensifier in photography; manufacture uranium
glaze; decorating porcelain; also as reagent in
anal. chemistry.
Toxicity (if known): N/A
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