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I tried the HMTD synthesis last weekend three seperate times and they resulted in nothing!  I used Mega's method to the word (Only I substituted 10X 3% H2O2 for 30%)
500ml 3% H2O2
14 grams Hexamine (First two used Esbit tablets, last I used Colhams tablets.)
21 grams Citric Acid
First batch I mixed the crushed Esbit tablets into the H2O2 and the wax was left on top (No harm to the synth I've heard.) and lowered the temperature
to 10C. I then started mixing in the citric acid (Particle size is similar to tablesalt.) and the temperature started... DROPPING!
I kept stirring it and after about half an hour and putting all 21 grams of citric acid into the mix it had reached a temp of about 3.9C.
I was pissed so I dumped it.
The second attempt was more or less just to check if it was my chemicals. I had plenty of supplies to waste so I put in the exact same amount of
chems into a capped bottle and shook it up for a minute, with no temp rise at all!
So, the next day I went into a lovely camping/hunting store and I see a small package of Colhams tablets that're labled "Hexamine fuel tablets". The
interesting thing is that the Esbit brand of hexamine is 14 grams to one tablet (Something like 1"x.5"x.75") and the Colhams are round disks measuring
1" across and .5" tall, they weigh 14 grams to 3.5 tablets! Very bulky for "pure" hexamine" and it had no wax binder at all.
And I mix it all together like the first time, with no temp rises except a brief 3C rise and that's it. I leave it overnight for 12 hours and it's
still just a milky H2O2 mix. I looked at the bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide and it says "Stabilized Hydrogen Peroxide." Could that be it? Stabilized?
I'll go find some 30% and try it then, hopefully it's just my H2O2.
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i got some acetic acid, and now i made HMTD, i used 5g of hexamine and got only 2.3g of HMTD, but i have been haveing fun, it is probaly cause i used
12% H2O2, i will use a better concentration next time
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Happy citric time:-)
Well finally got some good citric acid, I'll try Mega's synth in 3 days, Will post results with pics on my site.
I'll post the url when it's done
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Aaron, since you used 10x times diluted H2O2 you should use 10x times more catalyst, though that would be a totall waste of citric acid. One could
probably reuse it..
And again, because H2O2 is diluted and there are alot of water, temp shouldnt rise noticeably. Let it react at room temp next time for 12h or more.
Also, do anyone know if one could use 24% acetic acid for synthesis? How will that affect the yeld?
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24% of acetic acid should do it. It's just the effect of a low H+ concentration that you need. Although acetic acid is a much weaker acid than citric
acid.
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hmm, read the thread on "new HMTD at theforum" you can actualy find it by searching for "HMTD via scetic acid" on google. in there they mention
something about low concentration acetic acid causeing heat. you should cool it if you are to do that. in the normal GAA route you dont have to cool
it
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Recently i read HMTD synthesis in sciencemadness library, it was taken from Chem Soc journal so it have to be a serious document. But i have a
question:
Why do we have to stirr reaction solution for 3 hours at 0*C?
Is it because we want to dissolve citric acid?
Is it because some "strange" reaction goes while its at 0*C, which will increase yeld?
Or will those 3h prevent a runaway when we take out reaction solution in room temp?
Sorry that i ask many questions..
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In my experience, the stirring is not important as long as you got everything to dissolve. But keeping the materials cold is important - not because
of a runaway reaction otherwise, but because the solution seemed to form a lot of bubbles and hardly any HMTD when it was allowed to react at room
temperature from the beginning. I am not sure why this is, but I have had no luck unless I cool the reactants as the instructions say to.
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Cool, now things start to make some sence. Now i just thoat that this time at 0*C is needed to convert all HMTA to something.. Before actual
conversion to HMTD begins.
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H2SO4
I had success preparing HMTD from hexamethylenetetramine, 30% or 10% H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> and battery sulfuric
acid (30% ?) - without cooling ;) .
Well, <b>with</b> cooling, but little bit late.
Citric acid method gave me lower yield.
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Apparently your Espit tablets do not contain hexamine.
Found this at http://www.footprintpress.com/Articles/esbittabs.htm
"What we discovered was the “Esbit alternative.” Esbitk is the brand name of a solid fuel cube. It’s similar to, but burns cleaner than,
the old Army fuel tabs made of Trioxane and Hexamine. "
Does anyone what Esbit tablets are made of? What brands besides Colhams are hexamine?
[Edited on 4/7/2003 by Cappy]
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THE REAL WAY to Make HMTD
Ok, here is the real way to make HMTD!!
[a bunch of junk was deleted here]
[Edited on 10-2-2005 by Polverone]
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Your grammar is atrocious to say the least. I will not begin to point out all that is wrong with your post, but your grammar and presentation will
need to be worked on. Second, this is a chemistry and science centered type of forum, not a K3wl explosives site, when posting here please make your
posts neat, informative, descriptive, but most of all, make your posts useful.
Also, using teaspoons for measuring amounts of reactants is not a universally accepted method of measurement; maybe you should buy yourself a scale.
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I won't be nearly so kind. How about someone delete back past that lame misinformative crap "XxHMTDxX" has posted, thus sending this
thread back to 4/03 where it belongs.
BTW, that syth is a kewlified copy of that found in "kitchen improvised blasting caps".
[Edited on 1-10-2005 by Axt]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cappy
Apparently your Espit tablets do not contain hexamine.
Found this at http://www.footprintpress.com/Articles/esbittabs.htm
"What we discovered was the “Esbit alternative.” Esbitk is the brand name of a solid fuel cube. It’s similar to, but burns cleaner than,
the old Army fuel tabs made of Trioxane and Hexamine. "
Does anyone what Esbit tablets are made of? What brands besides Colhams are hexamine?
[Edited on 4/7/2003 by Cappy] |
It's possibly Trioxane .... the company simply subsituted for that production run or whatever. This compnay ALWAYS uses hexamine for their suff:
"HEXAMINE FUEL TABLETS"
TOCR SPORTS
2732 W. COLORADO AVE.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80904
VERY inexpensive, will ship anywhere, and has no binder, wax, etc. Was actual surplus material. Available is bulk carton or case (1lb - 24lbs) or
individual 250gram packages.
But more importantly you raise a point that many chems are being taken off the market or subsituted if enough notariety is directed toward them (note
"Red-Devil" lye)
Appolgies if this last sentence is OT.....
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Hexamine tablets
I use old military surplus hexamine fuel tablets. They're labeled:
"FUEL, RATION HEATING (INDIVIDUAL)
HEXAMINE"
Bought a 9 LB case of the suckers on eBay a few years ago. I've never had a
problem making HMTD or RDX with them.
If Trioxane is the problem, look around for the military stuff.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Axt
I won't be nearly so kind. How about someone delete back past that lame misinformative crap "XxHMTDxX" has posted, thus sending this
thread back to 4/03 where it belongs.
BTW, that syth is a kewlified copy of that found in "kitchen improvised blasting caps".
[Edited on 1-10-2005 by Axt] |
That type of post is very dangerous and certainly does not belong in a forum discussion on energetic materials. What in God's name is a teaspoon
or "cold" or a contrivance of kitchen-measurments doing in a discussion of this material. Peroxides have enough danger without this issue of
non-science. -=Very bad stuff=-
Sometime back there exists a study of energetic peroxcides wherein the participants isolated the potential pitfalls in decompensation (w/ TAPT). It
was entitled "Decomposition of a Multi-Peroxidic Compound: Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP)" and therein gave some very important information
re: longevity, safer mfg issues, etc.
That would be an interesting postulate to this discussion on HMTD....but the KeWL BaUmB-Kid$ stuff is very off-putting.
The references in the article are most important: some discussion centered on this issue on E&W and the references are of value for anyone working
w/ this compound. It's just text so you can cut/paste to suite your needs..it's rather lengthy.
Attachment: TATP-article.txt (27kB)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by raistlin
What is HMTD?
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LOL! And I get yelled at for not using search here or on the web...
Goto: Google
Type: HMTD
GotoFirstResult: (hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button)
FirstSentence: "Does anyone know the specs. on how to use Hexamethelenediammine peroxide (HMTD) as an initiator ?"
Also, it's a very crappy explosive. Doesn't last worth shit. Expect failed detonations if using old HMTD (that's not to say it's
safe to handle if old; keep wetted by alcohol -- safer, and unlike water dries fast when need arises to use it).
[Edited on 8-10-2005 by Quince]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Quince
LOL! And I get yelled at for not using search here or on the web...
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And now again for REPLYING TO A THREE YEAR OLD POST! saying "search google". Unless theres actually something new to add to this discussion,
<i>please</i> let this thread die.
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Here you can get a suitable tutorial for HMTD
This App provides all info needed for making HMTD. With a list of chemicals and production hints.
GOOGLE PLAY - HMTD APP
Greets
[Edited on 14-12-2012 by jmasterj]
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Mixed 30ML hydrogen peroxide and 10ML phosphoric acid, temperature, the beaker into the water until the temperature close to room temperature, slowly
add methenamine at this time, the solution temperature rises rapidly, when added Urotropine to the beaker scale line 48ml about (10.64g Urotropine),
the bottom of the beaker, a white precipitate appeared, the temperature continues to rise, there is a small amount of bubbles. Handheld beaker in the
pot in a circular motion, the purpose is to let the the beaker walls of rapid and uniform cooling. When the temperature of the solution is greater
than 60, methenamine will be dissolved oxygen does not produce HMTD obtained when the temperature is below 60 degrees, and the product remains
substantially constant rate of 70% -75%. 2 ~ 5 minutes solution after the upper has been cropped many of the foam, the temperature dropped to five
minutes appears at the bottom of the large amount of surface powdery precipitate after 10 to 20 minutes, there is no longer any phenomenon continues
(except bubbling), precipitation is no longer increase. After washing, quantitative filter paper filter to give HMTD finished, the process is only 30
to 50 minutes.
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methode LL
Here I would like to bring my experience. Rule No.1)
The temperature of all components not exceed + 3C. The first 3 hours. Best is 0C. Especially when mixing H2O2 + methenamine not exceed. The procedure
is as follows: Refrigerate 45 g of 30% H2O2 at -10C. Dry HMTA powder 14 g cooled on the -10C. Thereafter 14 grams HMTA to 45 grams H2O2. In one step.
Closed glass, hand-shaken about 2 minutes. Absolutely clean glass without the presence of metal. (cap). Glass into ice and water. Stir 1 minute in
cool water+ ice. Again manually shake for 2 minutes. Shortly, until complete dissolution HMTA. Take 7 grams citric acid crystals and dissolved in one
step. Shaken 2 minutes until dissolved. At this stage there is no fear of spontaneous increase in temperature. Conversely. When dissolving acid, will
be spontaneous cooling. Again added 7 g acid. Shaking to dissolve. The same is repeated once more. Thus, a total of 21 grams acid to dissolve. Glass
into the water and ice. Time 3 hours. Temp. 0C. Without stir. After 3hrs: reheat slowly (15min) on the 25C. When glass 20C is still a clear solution.
However: when the temperature will be near 25C over 1-5 minutes the solution became cloudy. Like milk. This is the first Hexamethylene triperoxide
diamine. This moment carefully!
Solution slowly circle and temperature monitoring. The glass themselves slowly heated to 30C. At this stage the glass must to cool on the 20C. (in
water 5C). Then again, remove from water and slowly stirred maintain the temperature between 20-25C. Glass may be not hotter than the hand. Every 5
minutes stirred 15 sec. Do it about 1 hour. Every 10 minutes/ 30 sec. Still maintain 22-26C. The solution becomes a slurry. After a two hours a dense
slurry. If the slurry is thick, like honey, the temperature does not rise any longer spontaneously.
Or only a little and slowly. A thick slurry formed after 2 hours, this is good result. Maintain at 20C still 4 hours. Or longer. In a water bath 20C
of about 500 ml. Thereafter filter, extraction, neutralize. Yield is high, very dense slurry. Precise yield I bring later ... ...LL
EDIT yeld: wet HMTD 34,46g. Appart on the 5 parts 6,89g. 6,89 dryed on the 2,80g. 5x2,8 = clear 14,00g HMTD
[Edited on 27-12-2014 by Laboratory of Liptakov]
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@Laboratory of Liptakov,
Avoid by all means, to store dry HMTPDA (HMTD)(HexaMethylene-TriPeroxyde-DiAmine) into glass jars or hard recipients...in case of unexpected
detonation...hard means shrapnels.
@All readers,
N(CH2-O-O-CH2)3N. 2HC(NO2)3 (HMDT dinitroformiate)
Is also another good candidate.
C6H12N2O6.2HC(NO2)3 = C9H14N8O18 --> 2CO2 +7CO + 7H2O + 4N2
Up to now I stil haven't found info on pKa or pKb of HMTD.
Also another interesting question is that usually tertiary amines do form N oxydes upon treatment with H2O2...
What about HMTD di-N-oxyde? O=N(CH2-O-O-CH2)3N=O
Quote: Originally posted by PHILOU Zrealone  | It is good to see despite there are good working procedures, people are stil trying to go the other way to prove it could work!
Why citric acid is favourised vs HCl?
Simply because hexamethylene tetramine is a base and is neutralised by strong acids; a weak acid like citric will neutralise it aslo but the enrergy
involved will be lower so will be the heat.A good thing to test, is to neutralise hexamine with HCl; then to cool down and add H2O2!
I suspect that since HMTD (Hexamethylen diamine triperoxid- N(CH2-O-O-CH2)3N) is a diamine, it will also act as a base; hence adding more HCl will
lead to the dissalt of it what should be more soluble and thus harder to isolate/cristallise.
This tread gave me a new insane genious idea (amongst many other):the idea would be to make HMTD, isolate it as fine cristals, wash them and then make
them react with dillute ice cold HNO3 or HClO4 to get disalts!Then slowly evaporate the water to get
N(CH2-O-O-CH2)3N.2HNO3 (HMDT dinitrate)
N(CH2-O-O-CH2)3N.2HClO4 (HMDT diperchlorate)
1)C6H12N2O6 --> 6CO + 6H2 + N2
2)C6H12N2O6.2HNO3 = C6H14N4O12 --> 6CO + 6H2O + H2 + 2N2
3)C6H12N2O6.2HClO4 = C6H14N2O14Cl2 --> 4CO + 2CO2 + 6H2O + 2HCl + N2
So on a theorical level and based on my knowledge: power should be higher since density will be higher, oxygen balance is improved (thus energy output
is higher); what is uncertain is the stability.
If you ever attempt to do this make it in tiny amount since this hasn't ever be done...so treat those two new compounds as if they were NH3.NI3
cristals with the power of HMX.
If they are stable enough to be isolated, you should expect a boost up on VOD level of +2-3km/s (vs 4,5-5,5 km/s for the HMDT).
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[Edited on 30-12-2014 by PHILOU Zrealone]
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Glasses is from the production process. How thick slurry formed. Unfortunately, I did not write it. Certainly, the resulting product is stored in
ethanol in a plastic container. Before filling dried always and only 1 gram HMTD. For filling 3-4 primer. It is interesting that nitro-HMTD and
perchlorate HMTD. But: The spreading HMTD in perchloric acid? Well .. hmm ... I will not try......LL
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