Nitramex

chemical compound

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use as explosive

  • coal miner loading a drill hole with an explosive
    In explosive: Nitramon and Nitramex explosives

    An important advance in explosives technology was the development by du Pont in 1934 of Nitramon, a canned product with a typical formula of 92 percent ammonium nitrate, 4 percent dinitrotoluene, and 4 percent paraffin wax. Some grades contain metallic ingredients such as…

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