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IN a recent article in NATURE (December 24, 1914), brief reference was made to the high explosives used as bursting charges for shells, the most important being the much-discussed trinitrotoluene, ...

Vanda Gunning, Kyriakos Tzafestas, Helen Sparrow, Emily J. Johnston, Andrew S. Brentnall, Jennifer R. Potts, Elizabeth L. Rylott and Neil C. Bruce The explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) is a major ...

Chemists are continuously looking for ways to improve the properties of existing chemicals, including energetic materials like explosives. One of the best known explosives is trinitrotoluene (TNT), ...

Summary The explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) is a significant, global environmental pollutant that is both toxic and recalcitrant to degradation. Given the sheer scale and inaccessible nature of ...

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