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How to make white fuming nitric acid from red fuming for rdx synthesis
That is a good way of drying it. Generally, low temp for an extended period is the way to go. Air ci ... |
15-3-2026 at 23:39
by: Microtek |
How to make white fuming nitric acid from red fuming for rdx synthesis
I made a typo in my last post; 65 % yield is of course not 1.65 moles of RDX pr. mole of hexamine, b ... |
22-2-2026 at 00:44
by: Microtek |
How to make white fuming nitric acid from red fuming for rdx synthesis
In Urbanski's desription of the K-method, 1000 kg cyclonite requires 480-500 kg hexamine. Calculatin ... |
17-2-2026 at 23:31
by: Microtek |
3,3’-Diamino-5,5’-bis(1H-1,2,4-triazole) and Derivatives
I revisited the nitration of DABT, and have found that it can be run without issue at higher temps a ... |
15-2-2026 at 02:33
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
I just came across this paper:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.4c04026
I can only acce ... |
15-2-2026 at 02:14
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
I have never isolated the free acid. When I tried evaporating the ethyl acetate extracts the first t ... |
5-2-2026 at 23:40
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
Yes, after nitration in Ac2O/HNO3, the mix was diluted with water and then combined directly with ca ... |
3-2-2026 at 23:51
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
After working this past month on optimizing the preparation of DAF, I have done a few more runs of D ... |
1-2-2026 at 01:13
by: Microtek |
Shit RDX yields without acetic anhydride
Yes, just as it requires more than three moles of nitric acid... |
2-1-2026 at 23:26
by: Microtek |
Phsysical questions about handling
The reason for using multiple initiation trains is to reduce the likelyhood of failure. If just one ... |
1-1-2026 at 23:30
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
I tried nitrating DAF as follows:
1.8 g DAF was added in small portions to fuming nitric acid (10 ... |
30-12-2025 at 00:44
by: Microtek |
Thermite using 'blender grade' Al powder, is it possible ?
Thermite can be made with much more coarse Al than that, but it needs solid ignition such as with a ... |
23-12-2025 at 00:46
by: Microtek |
Simple melt-cast carrier 2,4-dinitrophenoxyethyl nitrate (DNPOEN)?
If you really want to use a water bath for the melting, you could just add salt or ethylene glycol t ... |
21-12-2025 at 00:42
by: Microtek |
Simple melt-cast carrier 2,4-dinitrophenoxyethyl nitrate (DNPOEN)?
Any info on the trinitro derivative? It seems an obvious thing to try, so maybe it doesn't have a su ... |
20-12-2025 at 08:17
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
Another possibility might be using Oxone for the oxidative coupling, though it might give DAAF inste ... |
13-12-2025 at 05:05
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
I tried that exact preparation many years ago but found that once the mixture started boiling, cooli ... |
12-12-2025 at 06:41
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
It might also form polymers and I wouldn't be surprised if the higher homologues were favoured when ... |
10-12-2025 at 23:57
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
I found a chinese (!) paper about new methods of preparing DAF (https://www.energetic-materials.org. ... |
2-12-2025 at 09:22
by: Microtek |
3,3’-Diamino-5,5’-bis(1H-1,2,4-triazole) and Derivatives
Yes, I suspected this would be the case. A lot of researchers have a tendency of touting new materia ... |
24-11-2025 at 00:08
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
Ammonium carbonate is probably the most likely. It is a very substantial amount and may provide insi ... |
21-11-2025 at 03:14
by: Microtek |
Trinitrotoluene preparation
I have tried this a couple of times using detergent gasoline (mix of saturated aliphatic and cyclic ... |
14-11-2025 at 14:53
by: Microtek |
New Energetic Materials - Current Research
Recently I have been looking at furazan derivatives again. There are a number of procedures for diam ... |
13-11-2025 at 00:03
by: Microtek |
Easy SMX
It's not so much the decomposition temperature that is the problem but rather that in 18 days at 20 ... |
7-11-2025 at 11:39
by: Microtek |
Easy SMX
Yes, I used dimethoxypropane for the protection step. Very clean and easy reaction. I used way too m ... |
7-11-2025 at 00:54
by: Microtek |
Easy SMX
I did some work on SMX in my final thesis at the university (though I called it NDBD at the time). I ... |
6-11-2025 at 10:08
by: Microtek |
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