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2018-07-08 Science & Technology
US Army Discovers New Explosive Material - "More Powerful Than TNT"
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Posted by Raj 2018-07-08 00:50|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 Hopefully the ChiComs don't steal this formula for a few years...

Yeah. We'll just give it to them.

Bis(1,2,4-oxadiazole)bis(methylene) Dinitrate: A High-Energy Melt-Castable Explosive and Energetic Propellant Plasticizing Ingredient
Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-08 01:44||   2018-07-08 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 ...well, there's other stuff 'laying around'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-08 07:49||   2018-07-08 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 
seemingly harmless elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen


*sigh*

So is cyanide.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-07-08 10:39||   2018-07-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 There's lots of explosives more powerful than TNT (trinitrotolulene). Have been for over a century. Nitroglyerine and Dynamite are examples.
Military C4 is good 1/3 more powerful than TNT. What TNT is, is stable and easy to work with.
(Look up the wiki page on 'TNT equivalent', and scroll down to 'relative effectiveness'.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-07-08 11:18||   2018-07-08 11:18|| Front Page Top

#5 sta·bil·i·ty. Lovely word that, particularly if you are sitting next to a case of it...
Posted by magpie 2018-07-08 12:42||   2018-07-08 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Mag, I'm one of the guys that used to pinch off a pea sized bit of C4, and stick it on the bottom of a canteen cup full of water, and light it to boil the water to make coffee.
Everything is relative, in the long term we're all dead.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-07-08 15:20||   2018-07-08 15:20|| Front Page Top

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