Research department explosive

The chemical name for research department explosive (RDX) is cyclotrimethylene trinitramine or 1,3,5-trinitrohexahydro-sym-triazine [Structure (2.14)]. Because of 

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. 

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Picric Powder. Same as Abel s Explosive RDX(Research Department Explosive)(Cyclonite). Used in Composition A, Composition B, DBX,... 

Cyclonite (RDX in Anglo-Saxon literature, that is. Research Department Explosive) l,3,5-trinitro l,3,5-triazacyclohexane is a present one of the most important explosives. Over the last two decades extensive literature has been dedicated mainly to its analysis and application. 

The military explosives used as fillings for bombs or shells must have a low sensitivity to impact shock on firing, and must have good stability for long-term storage. TNT (trinitrotoluene), PETN (pentaerytbritol tetranitrate), and RDX (research department explosive) are the most commonly used military high explosives. PETN and RDX are also compounded with waxes or synthetic polymers to make so-called plantic explosives. 

Demolition or Research Department explosive. Ordnance of pure RDX is referred to as Composition A blended with 40% TNT it is known as Composition B. 

Energetic compounds can be collected for reuse by processing to reject binder, impurities, and other inert components. Explosives such as high-blast explosive (HBX), HMX, research department explosive (RDX, or hexahydro-l,3,5-trinitro-l,3,5-triazine), tetryl, TNT, NG, and NC are dissolved or suspended by steaming, high-pressure water jet cutting, or solvent extraction. Filtration, selective extraction/precipitation, vacuum evaporation, and other purification methods then separate the explosives from the binders and impurities, such as metal fragments and decomposition products. 

The most frequently employed starting explosives in indnstrial-scale production of diamond by detonation synthesis are, as a rnle, trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexogen (also called RDX = Research Department Explosive), with detonation performed in a water medium to reach a higher productivity. The most complicated stage in the industrial process is chemical isolation of NC diamond from the detonation carbon prodnced in an explosion, which is actually a mixture of micro- and nanoparticles of graphite, varions forms of sp -hybridized carbon and impurities originally contained in the explosive itself, and construction materials of the synthesis vessel. For details of the technology used in detonation diamond synthesis, the reader can be referred to Ref. 19 and Section 9.23.2 for the structure of the detonation diamond particles, their properties, and applications. 

RDX hexogen, research department explosive. Royal demolition explosive... 

RDX Research Department Explosive / Royal Demohtion Explosive... 

Explosives—Trinitrotoluene (TNT), pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), polymer-bonded explosive (PBXN), Research Department Explosive (RDX) compositions, explosive D, tetryl, fulminate of mercury, black powder, smokeless powder, flashless powder, and rocket and missile propellants. 

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