Science news articles about 'pentaerythritol tetranitrate'

  • ORNL demonstrates super-sensitive explosives detector

    ... phosphate and three explosives – cyclotrimethylenetrinitromine, trinitrotoluene, commonly known as TNT, and pentaerythritol tetranitrate. They were able to detect trace residues with lasers 100 times ...
  • Water acts as catalyst in explosives

    ... now. Using first-principle atomistic simulations of the detonation of the high explosive PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate), the team discovered that in water, when one hydrogen atom serves as a ...

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