Ethylene dinitrate Explosive

While it is, then, possible to recognise highly explosive materials by consideration of their molecular formulae and oxygen balance (e.g. ethylene dinitrate, C2H4N206 is... 

ETHYLENE DINITRATE (628-96-6) Explosive. Elevated temperatures above 237°F/ 114°C, acids, strong oxidizers, or mechanical shock can cause explosions. React violently with sodium peroxide, uranium fluoride. Incompatible with sulfurie aeid, nitric acid, caustics, aliphatic amines, isocyanates, boranes. 

Nitro Compounds, Feuer H. Nielsen A. T. (Eds), New York, VCH, 1990, 315 The crude product is too explosive to be worked up. Analogy with other olefins indicates that the final product will be ethylene glycol dinitrate, a known explosive though safe enough to have largely replaced nitroglycerine. That will be preceded by 1,2-dinitroethane and nitratonitroethane, more sensitive if less powerful. 

Although sudden deaths due to circulatory failure have been reported among workers exposed chronically to nitrated esters such as nitroglycerin and ethylene glycol dinitrate (Carmichael and Lieben 1963), no deaths attributable to cardiovascular effects were reported for U.S. Navy personnel involved in torpedo maintenance work (Horvath et al. 1981 Forman et al. 1987). The sudden deaths for workers in the explosives industry were attributed to a compensatory vasospasm that may produce coronary insufficiency upon withdrawal from nitrate ester exposure. 

Brief Abstracts of Recent Publications on LE which were not specifically drawn upon in the,discussion of the items above. Greater detail on specific LE will be found in Encycl articles on the individual explosive, eg, under Ethylene Glycol Dinitrate (EGDN) (Vol 6,... 

EDDN EDT EGDN Emulsion explosive Ethylenediamine dinitrate N,N -di-2-Ethanolethylenediamine tetranitrate Nitroglycol, Ethylene glycol dinitrate... 

Explosive N (Methylite 20 25). Expl compns consisting of NG/dimethylphthalate/stabilizer (not specified). The NG used was a commercial grade contg ethylene glycol 25, Ethyleneglycol Dinitrate 30 or Diglycerin Tetranitrate 30% to depress its freezing point. Props of Explosive N are as follows ... 

Uses Ethylene glycol dinitrate is a yellow, highly explosive liquid. It is extensively used in the manufacture of commercial dynamites and blasting gelatin. 

Nitrogen-explosive compounds usually analysed by CL may be classified under three structural categories (i) nitroaromatic compounds, (ii) nitrate esters and (iii) nitramines. Examples of nitro-substituted hydrocarbons are nitromethane, trinitrobenzene (TNB), trinitrotoluene (TNT) and pentantiroaniline. Nitroglycerine (NG), ethylene glycol dinitrate (EGDN) and pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) are nitrate esters [5], The nitro-explosive compounds that are the result of the presence of nitro and nitrate groups can... 

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