how would you convert toluene to TNT
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TNT- Trinitrotoluene
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The process is explained below
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- Trinitrotoluene is compount and contains many explosives such as pentolite, amatrol, torpex etc.
- Is is known as Trinol, Tritolo and Trilite.
- It was first prepared in 1863 by Joseph Wilbrand
- It was widely used during first world war and it is still used by construction companies and US military.
- It is a stable explosive and can be stored for long periods of time. It is insensitive to friction, and doesn't form sensitive compounds with metals.
- Toluene is nitrated with a mixture of sulphuric and nitric acid to get mono-trinitrotoluene(MNT)
- MNT is nitrated to dinitrotoluene(DNT)
- Then DNT is nitrated to trinitrotoluene(TNT)
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