APPENDIX XIII - POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE CHEMICALS

November 1996

The following is a partial list of chemical compounds and mixtures that are known to have explosive properties:

Alkali metal dinitrophenolates (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture

Ammonium nitrate mixtures (containing more than 0.2 percent combustible substances)

Ammonium perchlorate

Ammonium picrate (dry or containing less than 10 percent water, by mass)

Azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN)

Barium azide (dry or containing less than 50 percent water, by mass)

Barium styphnate

Cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine

Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine

Deflagrating metal salts of aromatic nitro derivatives

2-Diazo-1-naphthol-4-sulfonyl chloride

1-Diazo-2-naphthol-4-sulfonyl chloride

Diazodinitrophenol (containing less than 40 percent water or a mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

Diethylene glycol dinitrate

Dinitroglycoluril (Dingu)

Dinitrophenol (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

Dinitroresorcinol (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

N,N'-Dinitroso-N,N'-dimethylterephthalamide

N,N'-Dinitrosopentamethylenetetraamine

Dinitrosobenzene

Dipicryl sulfide (dry or containing less than 10 percent water, by mass)

Guanyl nitrosaminoguanylidene hydrazine (containing less than 30 percent water, by mass)

Guanyl nitrosaminoguanyltetrazene (containing less than 30 percent water or a mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

Hexanitrodiphenylamine (Dipicrylamine; Hexyl)

Hexanitrostilbene

Hexatonal

Hexolite (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

Lead azide (containing less than 20 percent water or a mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

Lead mononitroresorcinate

Lead styphnate (lead trinitroresorcinate) (containing less than 20 percent water or a mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

Mannitol hexanitrate (Nitromannite) (containing less than 40 percent water or mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

5-Mercaptotetrazol-1-acetic acid

Mercury fulminate (containing less than 20 percent water or mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

Nitrourea

5-Nitrobenzotriazole

Nitrocellulose (dry or containing less than 25 percent water or alcohol, by mass or plasticized with less than 18 percent plasticizing substance, by mass)

Nitroglycerin (containing less than 40 percent of a non-volatile water insoluble desensitizer, by mass or containing less than 90 percent alcohol, by mass)

Nitroguanidine (Picrite) (dry or containing less than 20 percent water, by mass)

Nitrosoguanidine

Nitrostarch (dry or containing less than 20 percent water, by mass)

Nitrotriazolone (NTO)

Octolite (Octol) (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (pentaerythrite tetranitrate, PETN) (containing less than 25 percent water, by mass or containing less than 7 percent wax, by mass or containing less than 15 percent of a suitable desensitizer, by mass)

Pentolite (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

Potassium salts of aromatic nitro-derivatives, explosive.

RDX and HMX mixtures (containing less than 15 percent water, by mass or containing less than  10 percent of a suitable desensitizer, by mass)

Sodium dinitro-o-cresolate (dry or containing less than 15 percent water, by mass)

Sodium picramate (dry or containing less than 20 percent water, by mass)

Sodium salts of aromatic nitro-derivatives

Tetranitroaniline

Tetrazol-1-acetic acid

Trinitro-m-cresol

Trinitroaniline (picramide)

Trinitroanisole

Trinitrobenzene (dry or containing less than 30 percent water, by mass)

Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid

Trinitrobenzoic acid (dry or containing less than 30 percent water, by mass)

Trinitrochlorobenzene (picryl chloride)

Trinitrofluorenone

Trinitronaphthalene

Trinitrophenetole

Trinitrophenol (picric acid) (dry or containing less than 30 percent water, by mass)

Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine (tetryl)

Trinitroresorcinol (styphnic acid) (dry or containing less than 20 percent water, or mixture of alcohol and water, by mass)

Trinitrotoluene (TNT) (dry or containing less than 30 percent water, by mass)

Tritonal

Urea nitrate (dry or containing less than 20 percent water, by mass)

Zirconium picramate (dry or containing less than 20 percent water, by mass)

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