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What is a trinitrotoluene?

What is a trinitrotoluene? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH3C6H2(NO2)3), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene
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On Thursday, he said the blast was caused by a car bomb containing trinitrotoluene and sulfur.
In combination with nitric acid, toluene gives trinitrotoluene.
Hence it has been displaced by more suitable substances, notably by trinitrotoluene.
Fumyl is a smoke-producing explosive, and contains trinitrotoluene and ammonium chloride.
The Germans did not develop this explosive as much as the Entente Powers, who effected great economy of trinitrotoluene.
With World War I looming, nitrogen was also in demand for the production of trinitrotoluene and other explosives.

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