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RDX synthesis
Even though meglomainia's site is gone i still saved some of his method.
melting point
205 °C boiling point
--- RDX molecular mass
222.12 g/mol density
1.82 g/mL
class (ABC) sensitivity
low chemical formula
C3H6N6O6 explosive velocity
8500 m/s estimated cost
$?.00/g
RDX, or cyclonite, is a very insensitive high explosive compound. The actual chemical name is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, although the
chemical names hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine; Hexogen; trimethylenetrinitramine; sym-trimethylenetrinitramine ;Hexolite;
1,3,5-trinitrohexahydro-p-triazine; 1,3,5-trinitrohexahydro-s-triazine; cyclotrimrthylene-trinitramine; 1,3,5-triaza-1,3,5-trinitrocyclohexane;
trinitrohexahydrotriazine; and T4 are also used. RDX itself stands for Royal Demolition eXplosive and comes from Great Britain, cyclonite is the
American usage, Hexogen is for Germans, and T4 is Italian. RDX is a very powerful military explosive that can be stored for long periods of time and
handled safely. RDX is usually mixed with other explosives and plasticizers to make a variety of useful compositions for military and civilian use,
C-4 and Semtex are two such compounds. It seems so much RDX is made that most scientific books give industrial schematics for thousands of pounds
instead of lab preparations. The laboratory methods here are not as efficient as in industry, but are fine. The first method uses methenamine, or
hexamethylenetetramine, which can be purchased as heating tablets or synthesized in the lab. The second makes use of acetic anhydride, forbidden by
the DEA, but it can be synthesized as well. CHEMICALS APPARATUS
acetic anhydride 500-mL beaker
acetone 1000-mL beaker
ammonium nitrate graduated cylinder
methenamine stirrer/stirring rod
nitric acid thermometer
paraformaldehyde
sodium bicarbonate
water
Put 335 mL of 100% nitric acid in a 500-mL beaker, cool the acid to below 30 °C by setting the beaker in a salt-ice bath. The nitric acid must
be as concentrated as possible, it must also be free of nitrogen oxides. Slowly add 75 g of methenamine in small portions to the acid while stirring.
The temperature must be kept between 20 °C to 30 °C during the addition. Once all of the methenamine has dissolved, slowly heat it to 55 °C while
stirring, hold it to between 50-55 °C for 5 minutes, keep stirring. Now cool the mix to 20 °C then let it sit for 15 minutes. After standing, it is
gradually diluted with three or four times its volume of cool water, this should precipitate the RDX from solution. Depending on how the gods of
chemistry feel about your reaction it may take from minutes to hours to fully precipitate all of the RDX. Decant most of the liquid then add 1 L of 5%
sodium bicarbonate solution to neutralize the remaining acid. Filter the mixture to collect the crystals of RDX that should have formed. Wash them
with cold water, then with hot 5% sodium bicarbonate solution, and again with water. The RDX can be dried at room temperature or in an oven. Further
purification can be accomplished by recrystallizing from acetone. You will need a graduated cylinder for measuring liquids, a stirring rod or magnetic
stirrer for mixing, and a thermometer to monitor the temperature.
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Polverone
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Sorry
Neither the E&W Forum nor Megalomania's web page have disappeared. It's noble of you to want to save the information he'd collected, but the
information isn't in need of saving. Even if it were in need of saving, this wouldn't be the exact place to post it. Sciencemadness isn't primarily an
explosives-oriented site. Discussions about energetic materials that shed new light on them are welcome, but we don't need another forum to rehash
"how to make explosive X" questions.
And honestly, that's not even a very good writeup about RDX. It doesn't tell you about the reactions involved. It has no molecular diagrams. It
doesn't cite any sources. The acetic anhydride preparation suggested (on Mega's page) is abominable: it requires acetyl chloride for synthesis, which
in turn requires phosphorus trichloride. Sure, you can buy phosphorus trichloride or acetyl choride, but in that case you might as well buy acetic
anhydride to begin with!
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RDX
trinitrotoluene, shut off your braindead copied descriptions and use your TNT for table-fireworks ! 
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Flaming
Unless that was some weird personal inside joke between the two of you, that was highly uncalled for, and NOT cool.
Flaming is not a part of this board. The members here do not wish to have this bullitin board cluttered with mean and derogotory comments like this.
This board is for science, and science has no room for namecalling.
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Cyclonite Synth.
When I made cyclonite many moons ago, I used red(dissolved no2)hno3 70%, concentrated by distillation from h2so4. As hexamine was added it made a
"hissing noise" and the acid became colourless. The hexamine dissolved as it went in. I waited a minute before drowning. I love the way it melts into
globules when flame is applied and its deflagration is so gentle. Maybe that's why it took 21 years for it to be recognised as the explosive it
undoubably is.
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Cyclonite Synth.
When I made cyclonite many moons ago, I used red(dissolved no2)hno3 70%, concentrated by distillation from h2so4. As hexamine was added it made a
"hissing noise" and the acid became colourless. The hexamine dissolved as it went in. I waited a minute before drowning. I love the way it melts into
globules when flame is applied and its deflagration is so gentle. Maybe that's why it took 21 years for it to be recognised as the explosive it
undoubably is.
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hissingnoise
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Ooops; missed a (t) in undoubtably.
When the subject is explosive, accuracy is essential.
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hissingnoise
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Don't know where the repeat came from.
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/Oops/ ?
And just like that you created more then half of the amount of posts under your name (7 at the time), which are all pretty useless if I may say so ...
And what you where making there is most likely hexaminedinitrate ...
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i tried to nitrate a gram of hexamine the other night, it proved to be a slight disaster and unsucessful. i used Mr Cools method on his site. about
1.2g of AN + 8ml of white HNO3 about 90%. then i added a gram of hexamine to this slowly while stirring. it was in an ice bath and a tilted it towrds
me as i stirred it. all of a sudden a drop of HNO3 shot out from stirring right into my right eye! ouch, i ran to the sink and started to wash it. it
hurt. then i moved to the other sink and washed it more with sodium bicarb for probaly 15 min. my vision was kinda blurred and it felt like i had
something caught in my eye. i finished the nitration and drowned it. got absolutely nothing. damnit! oh well, i got my PETN to play with.
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madog, you should go the hospital and say you got acid in your eye when recharging your car battery or somthing. they will put a dye in your eye and
check it out for damage.
the unexamined life is not worth living to a human
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trinitrotoluene
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Dude safety is number 1 you should always wear safety goggles even if your handleing dilutted strong acids. Was you wearing goggles when you got the
HNO3 in your eye?
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Hexamine dinitrate
Brainfever, you must know that the di-salt is very soluble in water and does not precipitate when drowned.
Lighten up!
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trinitrotoluene
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blah this thread is going nowhere. I 've should had never started this when I was a newbe.
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im ok
my vision is fine now, all is good.
tnt, lets make this topic go somewhere.
who else here has made RDX and by what method? i would really like to hear about it. has anyone seen that method involveing HMTD? i think im gona make
R-salt in the next couple days, and probaly oxidise it to RDX. has anyone here done that? the method from mr cools page for oxidation of R-salt to RDX
is gone. i would like to get it again.
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I’ve made rdx with distilled 99% HNO3 and with methenamine,
The Yeild wasn’t bad, 74% (29,7gr rdx out of 25gr methenamine).
I,ve changed the nitration time in meglomainia’s method, to get a better yeild.
(info from urbanski).
Slowly ad 25gr methenamine to the HNO3, which went quite easy keeping the temperature under 30degr C
After that put the solution in a water bath of 60 degr C, letting the temperature of the solution rise to 55 degr C Keep it at this temperature for 12
minutes.
Then cool it down in a ice bad to 20 degr C
During this phase some rdx becomes visible in the solution.
Let it stand for 10 min.
Then add to the solution 400 ml of ice water
A lot more of rdx will precipitatet out of the solution.
Let this solution stand for 5 minutes
After filtering neutralised the rdx with 400 ml 5% sodium bicarbonate solution.
The yeild after completely drying was 29.7 gr which is if I am ride about 74%
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Madog
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ok, awsome, thats good to hear. i dont have alot of HNO3. i should make more. i think i will try to make R-salt tomarrow. then ill try oxidiseing it
to RDX
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kingspaz
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you do know that R-salt is carcinogenic?
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Madog
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yes, its very carcinogenic, and i am going to do my best to protect myself.
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Actually most people I've spoken to seem to think that R-Salt would not be very carcinogenic, and is probably less toxic than RDX itself. I can't
remember why they were of this opinion, it had something to do with the decomposition products / metabolites being different to those of the more
carcinogenic nitrosamines.
But they had no figures or references to support this, it was just their opinion, so stay cautious...
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If I may hazard an opinion, all this talk or carcinogenicy (or whatever) it bunk. Hell, badly done french fries are carcinogenic... the sun is
carcinogenic where I live. It's not as if you drop this stuff on your finger and you suddenly get a bubbing, tenticaled cancer weeping from the flesh
wound...
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can I dry 60% HNO3 to 99% with anhydrous Mg(ClO4)2 ?
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osamafon >>
Actually sad, no. If a chem stuff called anhydrous, it shouldn't be dehydration agent directly (which is potent to dehydrate HNO3). You should try
P2O5, H2SO4, acetanhydride... with distillation ( in next step.
Would be somebody so kindly tell me what the R-salt is?
The cyanides are good to digesting!
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Hmm, actually Mg(ClO4)2 is a strong drying agent which can be used as a substitute for P2O5. I don't know
if it can be used here though... perhaps someone else does.
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eh, not to be an ass hole, maybe we should stay on topic
R-salt is RDX but only with NO groups in the place of the NO2 groups, i forget what that is called. but that explains it. it can be oxidised to RDX.
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