Erythritol tetranitrate (ETN) is a homemade explosive with high explosive performance which can easily be synthesized using widely available chemical precursors. Ascertaining the manner in which ETN is synthesized and being able to trace the ETN back to its precursor materials may aid in the ...
Fig. 14. Erythritol tetranitrate (ETN). ETN is soluble in organic solvents including methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, acetone, and acetonitrile [149]. Like other nitrate esters it has very low water solubility (at 20 °C, reported as 3.02 mg per 100 mL water) [156]. ETN is non-hygroscopi...
Inrecentyears,erythritoltetranitrate(ETN)hasbecomeoneofthemostwidelypreparedhomemadeexplosivesbybothama-teurchemistsaswellasterrorists.Themainreasonisthechangeinavailabilityoferythritol,akeyrequirementforETNsynthesis.Inthepast,erythritolwasanexpensivesubstancewhichiswhyonlyafewauthorshavepaidattentiontoastudyofETNasanexplo...
In order to further gain a comprehensive chemical understanding of erythritol tetranitrate (ETN), the synthesis impurities of ETN were investigated using ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography with tandem high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC‐MS/MS). A total of 12 impurities were identified ...
Erythritol tetranitrate (ETN) is a melt-castable, solid explosive with significant performance, similar to the established nitrate ester, pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN). Recent advances in synthesis coupled with the ease of procurement of erythritol make ETN a readily made improvised explosive. ...
Submitted for the SHOCK19 Meeting of The American Physical Society Thermal Stability of Solid and Molten Erythritol Tetranitrate (ETN) DANIEL MCDONALD, NICHOLAS LEASE, GEOFFREY BROWN, BRYCE TAPPAN, VIRGINIA MANNER, Los Alamos National Laboratory 鈥 Erythritol tetranitrate (ETN) is a melt-castable,...
Erythritol tetranitrate (ETN) is an explosive that recently has attracted a lot of attention in the explosives community due to its ease of synthesis and good explosive characteristics. Herein we report the synthesis of stereochemical ETN derivatives as well as derivatives with azides and nitramines...
PROCESS optimizationANALYSIS of varianceTHERMAL analysisOne way to reduce sensitivity and also to add special properties to explosives is to perform coating that depends on either the coating agent type or the usage process. In this work, the insensitive composite of penta erythr...