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HDN Hexamethylenetetramine Dinitrate |
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Manufacture Materials needed: 20ml of 70% Nitric Acid 15gm of hexamethylenetetramine 100ml of Acetone Distilled water Dissolve 15gm of hexamethylenetetramine into 100ml
of distilled water. After is has dissolved cool it in the refrigerator for
about 20 minutes. Also cool your 20ml of 70% Nitric Acid. Place the
hexamethylenetetramine solution into your reaction vessel, place the reaction
vessel into an ice bad, and slowly pour in your cooled Nitric acid while
stirring the solution. After all your Nitric has been added the crystals
will appear within a second, quickly filter the crystals out with some cloth.
I use a piece of cotton cloth so I can force all the water out by squeezing
it. Drop all your crystals from your cloth into the
acetone and stir for awhile, filter out your crystals again and protect them
from moisture. Dry your crystals under a hot lamp, it helps when you ‘cut’
and reposition your crystals every 10 min. It should be dry within one hour
due to the acetone. Place the dry crystals into a zip-lock bag or something
but don’t store to long, since it’s hygroscopic. Reaction: C6H12N4 + 2HNO3
à C6H14N6O6
Photo’s: HDN
crystals drying on a coffee filter. HDN
crystals in acetone right after filtering them. HDN
crystals in acetone right after filtering them close up. Sources: -
Chemical structure, properties and
analysis calculated by ChemDraw Ultra, CambridgeSoft Corporation. -
Explosivstoffe, Rudolf Meyer, 5. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Verlag
Chemie, 1979, Basel. Page 145-146 -
Chemie und Technologie der Explosivstoffe, Dr. Tadeusz Urbanski. Band II, Page 340. -
The Chemistry
of Explosives, Jacqueline Akhavan. Page 125 |
