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Composition C-4. It consists of RDX in a plasticizer, and takes significant shock to detonate.
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While we use several, you are probably thinking of Composition C4. It is composed of RDX explosive in a mix of a plastic binder. In Great Britain it is called PE-4. It is a low sensitivity explosive with high energy.
One of the most widely-used and least expensive explosives in the U.S. military's arsenal is triacetone-triperoxide or TATP. It is easy and inexpensive to synthesize and is made with acetone and hydrogen peroxide.
RDX, standing for Research Department Explosive, was one of the first manufactured 'plastic' explosives. It was widely used during WW2, where it was known as 'cyclonite by the UK and US forces, 'hexogen' by the Germans, and 'T4' by the Italian military. Its chemical descriptive name is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine.
At one time it was nitroglycerin- now it is probably ammonium nitrate, but RDX, HMX and TNT are also widely used.
Gunpowder was first invented in China no later than about A.D. 850. For hundreds of years, it was used mainly to create fireworks. The Chinese did not use gunpowder as a weapon of war; it was the Europeans who first adapted explosives for use in weapons. By the fourteenth century, Europeans were widely using the explosive as a military device to project stones, spearlike projectiles, and metal balls from cannons and guns.
RDX, an acronym for Research Department Explosive, is an explosive nitro amine widely used in military and industrial applications. It is also known less commonly as cyclonite, hexogen (particularly in German and German-influenced languages), and T4. Its chemical name is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine; variants include cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine and cyclotrimethylene trinitramine.
Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine is called RDX in common language.RDX is the organic compound with the formula (O₂NNCH₂)₃. It is a white solid widely used as an explosive. Chemically, it is classified as a nitramide, chemically similar to HMX. A more energetic explosive than TNT, it was used widely in World War II.