The Economist

A Swedish startup wants to reignite Europe’s explosives industry

The EU could rely more on imports from India, Vietnam and elsewhere, but that would not accord with its efforts to encourage ...
Nature

Trinitrotoluene in the War

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, ...
JSTOR Daily

Arabidopsis Glutathione Transferases U24 and U25 Exhibit a Range of Detoxification Activities with the Environmental Pollutant and Explosive, 2A6-Trinitrotoluene

Vanda Gunning, Kyriakos Tzafestas, Helen Sparrow, Emily J. Johnston, Andrew S. Brentnall, Jennifer R. Potts, Elizabeth L. Rylott and Neil C. Bruce The explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) is a major ...
Ars Technica

New explosives are stronger and greener than TNT

Chemists are continuously looking for ways to improve the properties of existing chemicals, including energetic materials like explosives. One of the best known explosives is trinitrotoluene (TNT), ...
JSTOR Daily

Expression of a Drosophila glutathione transferase in Arabidopsis confers the ability to detoxify the environmental pollutant, and explosive, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene

Summary The explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) is a significant, global environmental pollutant that is both toxic and recalcitrant to degradation. Given the sheer scale and inaccessible nature of ...
New Atlas

Benelli's new motorcycle: TNT

Benelli's new TNT motorcycle is named after the Trinitrotoluene explosive. The bike is Benelli's take on the streetfighter class of unfaired, minimalist and mean, high performance machines and it is ...