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swag: RDX is a high-energy explosive that is based on hexamine (
the main ingredient in "Esbit" food heating tablets) and red
fuming nitric acid, or, paraformaldehyde, and ammonium nitrate
in an acetic anhydride medium. It is used by insurgents overseas
because of its ease of manufacture, and by the military because
of its great stability, extreme brisance (violence of
detonation) resistance to accidental initiation, and tremendous
power. It is not only much more powerful than TNT (exactly twice
as much, by weight), but far, far, easier to make. TNT requires
a minimum of two, but usually three steps involving very
reactive materials, whereas RDX can be synthesized in one step,
using only moderately reactive ingredients. RDX is also used as
a rocket propellant, yielding a respectable specific impulse of
280 newton*seconds, when it is bound with HTPB (hydroxyl-
terminated polybutadiene), and other processing facilitators.
Mixed with either HTPB alone,