Pentaerythritol tetranitrate

The Nature, Sources, and Environmental Chemistry of Hazardous Wastes

Published in Stanley E. Manahan, Environmental Chemistry, 2022

Many kinds of explosives that can be used for illegal purposes have been developed. These include gunpowder, nitroglycerin (the explosive in dynamite) TNT (2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), RDX (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane), PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate). Structural formulas of several dangerous explosives are shown in Figure 19.6. Explosives can be made from readily available materials, especially a mixture of ammonium nitrate fertilizer with fuel oil, which was used in the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Dissociation of ⟨111⟩ dislocations on {11¯0} in pentaerythritol tetranitrate

View Article

Journal Information

Published in Philosophical Magazine, 2019

M. J. Cawkwell, N. Mohan, D. J. Luscher, K. J. Ramos

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), CHNO, is a widely used but relatively sensitive secondary explosive. Its stable polymorph at room temperature and pressure, PETN-I, is depicted in Figure 1 and is primitive tetragonal with two molecules per unit cell in space group [1]. The unit cell of PETN-I is simple by the standards of most molecular crystals. However, it is important to note that the vector connecting the molecule at the origin to the molecule at the body centre is not a lattice translation vector because the two molecules in the unit cell are rotated with respect to each other.

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate

Explore chapters and articles related to this topic

The Nature, Sources, and Environmental Chemistry of Hazardous Wastes

Dissociation of ⟨111⟩ dislocations on {11¯0} in pentaerythritol tetranitrate