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TNT
By Kenzi Marcel
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Introduction
Usage
Producing
Dangers
Introduction
• Trinitrotoluene is used as an explosive,
commonly found as a yellow solid. When
handled your skin turns yellow so its wise to
avoid touching it. TNT is very toxic so don’t
put any near your mouth or eat any as there is
a VERY high chance of you dying.
• This is a picture of TNT in action, its
container and the TNT inside the container.
Although this is not the gas. Before the
preparation takes place, it is toluene, a gas.
Its formula is C6H5CH3 but TNT’s formula is
a lot more complex than this.
Usage
• TNT is used as an explosive but toluene is has the
smell of paint thinners. It is a mono-substituted
benzene derivative therefore its formula is CH3. It
is an aromatic hydrocarbon that is widely used as
an industrial feedstock and as a solvent. Like
other solvents, toluene is sometimes also used as
an inhalant drug for its intoxicating properties.
• This is a picture of toluene’s structure modelled in
CGI. It has a structure made in mainly hexagons,
spheres and tubes connecting the spheres like
atoms.
Producing
• Producing trinitrotoluene out of toluene is no easy thing.
First, toluene is nitrated with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric
acid to produce mono-nitrotoluene or MNT. The MNT is
separated and then renitrated to dinitrotoluene or DNT. In
the final step, the DNT is nitrated to trinitrotoluene or TNT
using an anhydrous mixture of nitric acid and oleum. Nitric
acid is consumed by the manufacturing process, but the
diluted sulfuric acid can be reconcentrated and reused.
Subsequent to nitration, TNT is stabilized by a process
called sulphitation, where the crude TNT is treated with
aqueous sodium sulfite solution in order to remove less stable
isomers of TNT and other undesired reaction products. The
rinse water from sulphitation is known as red water and is a
significant pollutant and waste product of TNT manufacture.
Dangers
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Toluene is also known for its very flammable vapours that can very
easily catch fire. Its wise to not smoke or use it near cookers or
open fireplaces as the container can implode leading to a disasterdeath to all people in the area.
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BY KENZI MARCEL