Introduction Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilisers. It was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germany, and was patented in 1867. It rapidly gained wide-scale use as a more robust alternative to the traditional black powder explosives. It allows… Read More
Introduction IMX-101 is a high-performance insensitive high explosive composite mixture developed by BAE Systems and the United States Army to replace TNT in artillery shells. Refer to Dunnite and Dynamite. Background IMX stands for “Insensitive Munitions eXplosives”, which refers to the purpose of IMX-101: to provide explosive force equivalent to TNT without its sensitivity to… Read More
Introduction Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT – more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene – is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. Refer to Dynamite, IMX 101, and Dunnite. TNT is occasionally used as a reagent in chemical synthesis, but it is best known as an explosive material with convenient… Read More
Introduction Dunnite, also known as Explosive D or systematically as ammonium picrate, is an explosive developed in 1906 by US Army Major Beverly W. Dunn, who later served as chief inspector of the Bureau of Transportation Explosives. Ammonium picrate is a salt formed by reacting picric acid and ammonia. It is chemically related to the… Read More
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