Explosives mono- 3-nitrotoluene

Gelatmeastralite contains ammonium nitrate with some sodium nitrate, up to 20 per cent, of dinitro-chlorhydrin and maximum amounts of 5 per cent, of nitro-glycerine and I per cent, of collodion cotton. Gelatinewetterastralite I has the composition 40 per cent, ammonium nitrate, 7.5 per cent, sodium nitrate, 16 per cent, dinitro-chlorhydrin, 4 per cent, nitro-glycerine, 0.5 per cent, collodion cotton, 0.5 percent, wood-meal, 8 percent, potato starch, 2 per cent, rape seed oil, I per cent, nitro-toluene, 2 per cent, dinitro-toluene, 14 per cent, salt, and 2.5 per cent, ammonium oxalate. Another plastic ammonium nitrate explosive known as Plastammone contains ainmonimn nitrate, glycerine, mono-nitrotoluene, and nitro-semicellulose. 

A series of mixtures of nitric acid with one or more of mono- and di-nitrobenzenes, di- and tri-nitrotoluenes have been shown to possess high-explosive properties [1]. Critical detonation diameters for mixtures of nitric acid with dinitrotoluene and TNT have been determined [2],... 

For onsite analysis, the examination of the vast number of samples necessitates the use of quick, reliable, field portable equipment that can rapidly, quantitatively verify the many chemically different types of ammunition, explosives, and pyrotechnics. The most common suite of analytes to detect is large, consisting of very chemically different compounds and usually occurs at trace levels in complex environmental matrices. This suite encompasses smokeless powders, black powders, and numerous propellant and energetic formulations. Detection should also be sought for common decomposition products of these explosives such as the methylanalines, aminonitrotoluenes, nitrotoluenes, mono- and dinitoroglycerines, and the nitrobenzenes under on-site conditions. 

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