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What's this pale yellow substance? Any of these below?
by HeavyWeight on May 14, 2008 09:34 PM   Permalink

Tetryl - Sensitive explosive compound used in detonators. Slight yellow in color. Produced by the reaction of a mix of concentrated nitric acid and sulfuric acid on dimethylaniline.

Trinitrotoluene (TNT) - A pale yellow crystalline explosive hydrocarbon compound used my many explosive mixtures.



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