Amatol

Amasulm Amatexes Amatol Amatols Amator Amator 2 ATffiER Amber... 

Property Compositio nE Cyclotol 75/75 Octol 75/25 PentoHte 50/50 Earatol 67/23 Amatol 80/20... 

An important class of expl materials contains metallic fuels and inorganic oxidants. Examples are Tritonal (TNT/A1, 80/20), Amatols (TNT/AN, 28/80 80/20), and Minol-2 (TNT/AN/A1, 40/40/20). Oxidants other than nitrates, such as chlorates and perchlorates, may be employed. Water solns containing these cations are highly corrosive to metals. Alkaline metal salts, for example, in the presence of moisture, will pit A1 quickly (Ref 6)... 

Azide Powder Styphnate B PETN RDX Tetryl TNT Amatol H alette Tetrytol Ednatol Pentolite... 

In open containers there was no formation ox tne purple salt. In all cases except those in which the minimum amount of moisture was present, there was corrosion of the Cu strips with the formation of blue and green basic nitrates, and it was found that at ambient temps, these basic nitrates would react with Cu to form the sensitive purple salt. It was concluded that no Cu or Cu alloys could be used in ammo which could contact Amatol fillers (Ref 1)... 

Medard also examined mixts of the tetranitrate with AN and DNT. He found a mixt with 52.5% AN superior to 50/50 Amatol. Trauzl test values and deton velocities for the former were 132cc and 6520m/sec (d 1.62g/cc), with the latter yielding 112cc and 6150m/sec (d 1.60g/cc), respectively... 

These Minols were prepd by adding appropriate quantities of dry AN and A1 powder to molten TNT at 90° under agitation. Minol II could be prepd by adding 25 parts of A1 to 100 parts of 50/50 Amatol, or the calculated amounts of ingredients to other Amatols previously prepd... 

The Comparative Blast Performance of Torpex 2, Mmol 2, 60/40 RDX/TNT, TNT, and 60/40 Amatol , Report No 57/44 (April 1944) 7)Committee of Divisions 2 and 8, NDRC, Report on Minol and Torpex, Committee on Fillings for Aerial Bombs , OSRD 4243 (Oct 1944) 8) Anon, Allied and Enemy Explo-... 

Comparison of High Explosives Containing Aluminum with Amatol and TNT , BRL-MR-211 (Sept 1943) 8) Anon, The Use of Secondary... 

Anon, Summary of Data Relating to the Comparative Blast Performance of Amatol 60/40, TNT, RDX/TNT 60/40 and Aluminized Fillings, eg, Minol and Torpex , ARDE Report 58/44 (April 1944) 22) Anon, Summary... 

NT (Explosif) (Nitrate d ammoniaque-Tolite). A Fr military expl consisting of AN 70 TNT 30%. This castable compn corresponds to the US 70/30 Amatol... 

Amatol 41. AN 52, PH-Salz 30, Ca(N03)2. 4H20 6, RDX 10 Montan wax 2% (Ref 3) Compns contg A1 were particularly suitable for underwater ordnance because they possessed high blast effect. PH-Salz could also be used straight or slightly phlegmatized. In the latter case, it was particularly suitable for use in anticoncrete shells, called Be-Granate (Be is an abbreviation for Beton = concrete)... 

TNT contains insufficient oxygen to give complete combustion of the carbon on detonation. It can, therefore, usefully be mixed with ammonium nitrate, which has an excess of oxygen. The resulting explosives, known as amatols, are more powerful and cheaper than TNT itself, but in general have a lower velocity of detonation. A proportion of 60% ammonium nitrate is perhaps the commonest of these compositions. 

Viele Gemische fester Stoffe im geschmolzenen Stoff sind durch den GieliprozelJ ausgezeichnet laborierbar -+ Amatole, Composition B, Torpex, Tritonal u. a.). 

CattorettiG, PileriS.Parravicini C, Becker MH, PoggiS, BifulcoC, Key G, D AmatoL, SabattiniE, Feudale E (1993) Antigen unmasking on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue sections. J Pathol 171 83 98... 

Until the end of the First World War the main filling for mass ordnance was TNT and its mixtures with ammonium nitrate known as Amatols. During this period improved methods for the manufacture of RDX enabled its inclusion in munitions, usually in formulation with TNT in the form of the Cyclotols. RDX and its mixtures are still the most widely used explosives for military use. 

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