Mannitol hexanitrate Nitromannitol

D-Mannitol hexanitrate, nitromannitol or nitromannite was obtained by Sobrero [10] by nitrating D-mannitol. In view of its high sensitiveness to impact and great ease of detonation Sobrero suggested that it could act as an initiator. However, experiments carried out in the arsenal at Torino, Italy, have not confirmed this. Nitromannitol has also been obtained by Domonte and Menard [11]. 

Owing to the ease of preparation and purification, the chemical and explosive properties of mannitol hexanitrate have been thoroughly investigated. The following papers are worth attention Sokolov [12], Berthelot [13], Sarrau and Vieille [14], Wigner [15], C. Taylor and Rinkenbach [16], Medard [16a]. 

The widest investigation on nitration of D-mannitol in nitric acid-sulphuric acid nitration mixture at 0°C was recently reported by Kunz and Giber [16b]. The authors built a triangle diagram (Fig. 68) known as Sapozhnikov diagram described in detail in the chapter dedicated to nitrocellulose (p. 333). The curves of equal 

The curves of yield possess a similar shape as those of nitrogen content. 

The rate of O-nitration of D-mannitol depends mainly on the activity of nitric acid in the acid mixtures. 

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Mannitol hexanitrate is now used as a secondary charge in some detonators, instead of tetryl. Thus it is used in detonators in which the primary initiator is diazonitrophenol. There also exist detonators wherein nitromannitol is used with tetrazene. Such a blend behaves as an initiator. 

MANNITOL HEXANITRATE, wetted with not <40% water, by weight or mixture (NA 0133) (DOT) d-MANNIT-OL HEXANITRATE MANNITRIN MAXITATE MEDEMANOL O NITRANITOL NITRO MANNITE NITROMANNITE (dry) (DOT) NITROMANNITE, wetted with not <40% water, by weight or mixture (NA 0133) (DOT) NITROMANNITOL SDM No. 5... 

Mannitol Hexanitrate, Mannitol nitrate nitro-tnannite nitromannitol Maxitate Medemanol Dilangil Moloid Mannitfin Nitranitol Manexin. C4HaN6Ou mol wt 452,17. C 15.94%, H 1.78%, N 18.59%, O 63.69%. Made by nitration of mannitol Fleury et al, Mem. Poudres 31, 107 (1949). 

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