Tolite or Trotyl

French Explosives. See under Explosifs in this Vol and under individual names, such as Anilite, Cheddite, Favier explosifs, Grisou-dynaniites, Hexogene, Melinite (PA), Nitrami-don (NS), Poudre noire (BkPdr), Schneideritsj Tolite or Trotyl (TNT) and others... 

Tolite or Trotyl (Fr). Trinitrotoluene, TNT. See under French Military Explosives, Requirements in Vol 6. F195-R... 

TNT may be called by its full chemical name, Trinitrotoluene, or it may be referred to as Tolite, Trotyl, or TOL. 

The explosive force of the nitro derivatives of benzene and its homologues increases with the number of nitro groups and decreases with the number of methyl radicals. Symmetrical trinitrobenzene is a very powerful explosive but on account of the difficulty of introducing three nitro groups into the benzene ring it has been little used. Toluene can be nitrated more readily and the symmetrical trinitro derivative (387) was extensively used in the recent war it is called T.N.T. or, in Europe, trotyl or tolite. The trinitro derivative of metaxylene, C6H(CH3)2l,3,(N02)32,4,6, which was also used is... 

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