Tritonal

Tritonal

Explosives

Published in Per-Anders Persson, Roger Holmberg, Jaimin Lee, Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering, 2018

Per-Anders Persson, Roger Holmberg, Jaimin Lee

Although already having the most negative oxygen balance of all common explosives, TNT mixed with added high-energy fuel in the form of aluminum powder, an explosive commonly called Tritonal, and TNT/RDX compositions with large percentages of aluminum, commonly called Torpex, are used for increased blast eifect and heave in underwater mines, torpedoes, naval artillery shells, and deep penetrating bombs. To better utilize the excess fuel in these types of explosives, repeated efforts have been made to include ammonium nitrate and ammonium perchlorate, and several AN/TNT/Al compositions have been fielded. However, the long-term storage properties of these have not been encouraging.

Modeling Dissolution of High Explosive Formulations

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Published in Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, 2018

Mark S. Dortch

Tritonal is 80% TNT and 20% aluminum flakes. Indoor drip dissolution experiments were conducted by Taylor et al. (2009a) with two Tritonal particles using the two drip rates as described above for Comp B and TNT. The effective precipitation rates used in the model, as determined from the TNT dissolution modeling discussed above, were 20 and 40.7 m/yr respectively for particles 1 and 2. The mass of TNT dissolved during the tests was 1.28 mg after 72 days and 5.02 mg after 73 days for particles 1 and 2, respectively.

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