A recent innovation in trinitrotoluene manufacturing has been the development of the counter-current, continuous flow process. Early studies that showed the waste to be toxic and refractory and the ...

An anaerobic fluidized-bed granular activated carbon bioreactor in series with an activated-sludge reactor was used to treat a wastewater containing 100 mg/L 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT). The ...

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

The US will expand in-country explosive manufacturing capabilities following the award by the US Army to Repkon USA-Defense of a $217.5m contract for the design, build, and commission of a ...

IN a recent article in NATURE (December 24, 1914), brief reference was made to the high explosives used as bursting charges for shells, the most important being the much-discussed trinitrotoluene, ...

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