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15 unusual facts about Trinitrotoluene


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It might have produced a blast measured in hundreds of kilotons of TNT, but may not have produced any effect on the ground.

Bologna Centrale railway station

On 2 August 1980 at 10.25 am, an improvised explosive device (IED) made with 20 kilograms of a TNT mixture was detonated inside Bologna's main railway station.

Clayton Aniline Company

The outbreak of war with Germany in 1914 led to lucrative contracts for the company including the production of 1,500 tons of TNT.

Cordite

A smaller site at Girvan, South Ayrshire, now occupied by Grant's distillery, produced cordite and TNT.

Fries with That?

” She also mysteriously has a huge love for Romanian soap operas that was demonstrated when a criminal used TNT on a vault about 20 feet away and she didn't even notice.

Funeral for a Fiend

Sideshow Bob then reveals a large pile of TNT, with which he will kill them, using a laptop with a defective battery (which will overheat and explode) as a detonator.

Hafnium controversy

One gram of pure 178m2Hf would contain approximately 1330 megajoules of energy, the equivalent of exploding about 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of TNT.

Jamestown Bridge

TNT charges were later used to remove the concrete piers.

Marjata

This secondary event was estimated to be equal to two tons of TNT.

MV Mercedes I

They scuttled her on 30 March 1985 with 350 pounds of TNT off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, in order to create an artificial reef.

MV Neptuna

In February 1942 Neptuna was off Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin, Australia unloading a cargo of depth charges TNT and other armaments.

Operation Royal Marine

Each mine contained 15 pounds (6.8 kilograms) of TNT and, depending upon type, either floated or bounced along the riverbed.

Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben

It is calculated that the impact released energy equaling 250 megatons of TNT and occurred when this area was probably covered by a shallow sea.

Penniman, Virginia

As part of the World War I war efforts, Penniman was built by the E.I. DuPont Nemours company originally to manufacture TNT, but was converted to other use in support of the U.S. Navy.

Robert E. Laws

The enemy force, estimated to be a reinforced infantry company, was well supplied with machineguns, ammunition, grenades, and blocks of TNT and could be attacked only across a narrow ridge 70 yards long.


17 cm mittlerer Minenwerfer

Furthermore, the low velocity allowed for the use of explosives like Ammonium Nitrate-Carbon that were less shock-resistant than TNT, which was in short supply.

Beit Lid massacre

Each was made using plumber's pipe (one foot long and eight inches (203 mm) wide) and five kilograms of military-grade TNT, surrounded by nails.

Clostridium

C. acetobutylicum, also known as the Weizmann organism, was first used by Chaim Weizmann to produce acetone and biobutanol from starch in 1916 for the production of gunpowder and TNT.

Nishapur train disaster

During the cleanup operation, the cargo of the wagons exploded, reportedly the equivalent of 180 tons of TNT, which demolished Khayyam, badly damaged the nearby towns of `Eyshabad, Dehnow, Nishapur and Taqiabad, Nishapur, and could be felt in the city of Mashhad, 70 kilometers away.

Radford Army Ammunition Plant

RFAAP is currently operated by BAE Systems making it the sole supplier of TNT to the US Department of Defense.

Tovex

The Tovex family of products, sometimes generically called "water gels," were developed by the old Explosives Department at DuPont (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc.) in the mid-to-late 1960s when pelletized TNT was included in aqueous gels to create a slurry form of ANFO that displayed water-resistant properties in wet bore holes.