Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine

<p>Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) is a  <a href="/facts/High_explosive/sUme5Pp8">high explosive</a> <a href="/facts/Organic_compound/gqCNaN45">organic compound</a>. HMTD is an <a href="/facts/Organic_peroxide/UAyyVaDU">organic peroxide</a>, a <a href="/facts/Heterocyclic_compound/8oYSjJxY">heterocyclic compound</a> with a cage-like structure. It is a <a href="/facts/Explosive_material/sUme5Pp8">primary explosive</a>. It has been considered as an initiating explosive for <a href="/facts/Detonator/SoXrXl08">blasting caps</a> in the early part of 20th century, mostly because of its high initiating power (higher than that of <a href="/facts/Mercury(II)_fulminate/tYFQEUkz">mercury fulminate</a>) and its inexpensive production. As such, it was quickly taken up as a primary explosive in mining applications. However, it has since been superseded by more (chemically) stable compounds such as dextrinated <a href="/facts/Lead(II)_azide/BkHIBVWW">lead azide</a> and <a href="/facts/DDNP/46KjQuNI">DDNP</a> (which contains no lead or mercury). HMTD is widely used in amateur-made blasting caps.
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Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine