Cyclotol high explosive

Using the methods of Taylor s analysis as the basis of machine computation, Lutzky has computed "Spherical Taylor Wave for several high explosives (TNT, Pentolite, 65/35 60/40-Cyclotols, TNEtB, RDX, Tetryl and NGu) with the equation of state ... 

Italian explosives, ammunition and weapons (small arms and artillery pieces) have always been considered of very good quality. With the exception of T4 (Cyclonite or RDX) and Tri-tolita (Cyclotol), which the Italians developed and used before both Great Britain and the USA, there are no high explosives of unusual interest or originality. However, there are several explosives similar to the German Ersatzsprengstoffe (Substitute Explosives), which were developed in Italy due to the shortage of aromatic compounds... 

Cyclonite is a very important explosive. The outstanding properties of RDX as an explosive are high chemical stability, not much lower than aromatic nitro compounds and high explosive power which considerably surpasses that of aromatic nitro compounds such as TNT and picric acid. RDX has a detonation velocity of8600 ms"1 and a detonation pressure of 33.8 GPa at a density of 1.77 gem"3. RDX is used in mixtures with TNT (Hexotols, Cyclotols, Compn. B) wax (Composition A) aluminum (Hexals) aluminum and TNT (HBX, Hexotonal, Torpex) etc. 

Many high explosives contain nitroaromatics, such as TNT. Often mixtures of high explosives are used. For example, Tettytol is a mixture of tetryl and TNT used in demolition blocks and cast shaped charges. Because of its low cost, TNT is widely used in high explosive formulations (e.g., amatol, ednatol, pentolite, torpex, tritonal, picratol, cyclotol, ednatol, DBX, HBX-1, HBX-3, H-6, PTX-1, PTX-2, Minol2, and Compositions C-2, C-3, and B) [15]. Many ammonium nitrate based industrial explosives also contain DNT or TNT in the mixture [16]. This wide use of nitroaromatics makes them an important target class for explosives detection. 

Cyclotol 75% RDX + 25% TNT Basically modified Composition with a higher RDX content for better performance. Used as a high VOD castable main explosive and also considered as a substitute for PBX-9404... 

Jr, "Development of Explosive of High Brisance , PATR 1170(1942)(Cyclotol contg RDX 30 TNT... 

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