Explosive oil

Nitric acid ester with a simplified formula (left) and the structural formula (right). The radical R is an organyl radical which can contain further nitric acid ester groups. The nitric acid ester group (nitrate group) is marked in blue .

Explosive oil is a historical name that is still used today for liquid nitric acid esters , such as nitroglycerin , nitroglycol , diglycol dinitrate , dinitrochlorohydrin , tetranitrodiglycerin or mixtures of these substances. Explosive oil is one of the liquid explosives .

use

Explosive oil is used, among other things, for the manufacture of dynamites and weather explosives .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Meyer: Explosivstoffe , VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim 1985, 6th edition, p. 277, ISBN 3-527-26297-0 .

Web links

• On the toxicology of military-specific explosives and their decomposition products (accessed on May 15, 2020)
• NIPOLIT-Kampfmittel (I) (accessed on May 15, 2020)
• Nobel's patent explosive oil and further experiments with it on the upper resin. (accessed on May 15, 2020)
• Innovations in blasting technology (accessed on May 15, 2020)
• Blasting work (accessed on May 15, 2020)