Hi man you are absolutely fantastic i can’t believe it if you did the last step again using nitrate salt instead HNO3, anyway i done this process a few times during student and I finished the last step using 95% Nitric acid at 100-110C temperature holding it around 1-2hour.. for me hardest thing was the purifying it.. even my teacher didn’t know how to can do it;) I used ethanol, aceton but its always make a lot of red water without success.. after more than 25 years finally I understood this can be done using methanol… a lot of thanks
This video is not mine but purification step includes sodium sulfite washes btw what is the difference between conc HNO3 and nitrate salt conc hno3 is made the same way only where its destilled why can't be used the mix without destination for Cyclonite for example sulfuric acid decompose it and thats why conc hno3 is used here reaction needs sulfuric acid for solvent for DNT so with little excess sulfuric acid i think second nitration can be done
@@nfpa4957yes, thanks for this info, I understood, what I didn’t know was the suitable solvent for Recrystallization.. just Im not make sure if in the purification process ( diluted H2SO4 step ) was needed to be neutralize the acid by washing it using Sodium carbonate solution or just can go to the last step which was dissolving it into Methanol?
@@tomspeed2000 i think u can wash it with water only and then do the recrystallization but TNT thats after sodium sulfite wash is military grade i mean its pure enough to be used the other steps are if you want to obtain pure TNT.
Solubilidad: miscible con agua, etanol, éter, benceno, cetonas y muchos otros disolventes orgánicos. Disuelve una gran variedad de sales inorgánicas por ejemplo 43 % de yoduro de sodio, 22 % de cloruro de calcio, 4 % de nitrato de plata, 3.2 % de cloruro de amonio y 1.4 % de cloruro de sodio.
If the solution is overheated by adding a large amount of toluene, a large amount of brown gas is formed. Will it be possible to make TNT from the remaining liquid?
@@nfpa4957 In this way I obtained a yellow translucent liquid with a strong odor of nitrogen dioxide and toluene, without any particles. Does it make sense to heat it up?
Yes and it makes good mixes with other compounds like PETN but the other problems are that there is alot of toxic waste after the synthesis and yelds aren't that good as for example ETN or PETN.
Tolueno y se suele conseguir la nitración empleando una mezcla de ácido nítrico y ácido sulfúrico. El proceso de fabricación es mucho más complicado que simplemente mezclar esos tres componentes, claro. Se llevan a cabo tres fases de nitración distintas, una para añadir el primer grupo NO2 al tolueno, obteniéndose nitrotolueno; una segunda fase para convertir éste en dinitrotolueno (DNT), y una tercera, en que el DNT se transforma en TNT por adición del tercer grupo NO2. Posteriormente hay que cristalizar el TNT y separarlo de la mezcla nitrante por filtrado o por enfriado. contexto
Pottasium nitrate will leave pottasium sulfate which will made the mix very thick you can use sodium nitrate and you will need to readjust the molar ratios.
@nfpa4957 yes but all nitrate salts leave behind sulfate. Including ammonium nitrate. Can't you simply decant off the solution and leave behind the sulfate? Which it looks like you do in your synthesis
@@prestonhanson501 you can't it creates something like thin emulsion with sulfuric acid you have to filter it and I don't see a way to filter nitration mix
Hey do can please upload any video how to make this practically explosive or how to detonate. I heard that we should probably melt TNT into shells but there is no a whole lot of info here in youtube
@@laserfacts5466 You need secondary explosive like etn or petn in order to surely set off tnt you can either melt it or use it pressed you can melt it in boiling water bath then pour it and leave something to leave a hole in the cast so you can stick the detonator inside
On the end after methanol recrystallization its purer i think yellowness is caused by lower nitrates and other decomposition products but for detonation purposes dosent require to be pure.
The nitration process is by using mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid, so it would be better to use them instead of KNO3, however it will still work.
@@elanti-furrodelrancho3499 It is not difficult to prepare a concentrated one. But fuming acid (oleum) is not easy to prepare even in a good laboratory.
... or you could just mix the AN from the first step with some additives and blow that stuff up.😄 It's interesting though, but I would never do that, while other explosives are so much easier and even stronger than TNT.
Yep you are right but TNT has its properties like it can be meltcast with other explosives like PETN and this meltcasts are very good for shaped charges and TNT is very good for storage and it's stable.
Keys to this reaction: very, very, pure toluene (even a single benzene ring lacking the tri-methyl group will break the reaction) and very cold. Not clear how you were successful with 75C temps ... have only ever been able to be successful if I kept the bulk tmep in the 0C or below level. Use a dry ice/alcohol bath to stay cold.
Final nitro group will be hard to attach with temperatures below 50c and i don't think toluene must be ultra pure because its produces in tons from around 90 years TNT is pretty chemically stable.
I must be getting old, because I think y’all are crazy making this at more than maybe a 50mg scale. There was a time I would have tried, but fortunately lived through that phase of my life!
TNT is a very stable secondary explosive. You can: burn it, smash it and grind it and wont detonate. Your statement would be valid if you were making, say, TATP, HMTD, silver or mercury fulminate, lead picrate (or the acid), azides or lead styphnate (all those are primary high explosives). With 50mg of TNT you'd probably need like 200mg of lead azide to set it off... Which is a waste.
@@DaNiKzz Even with only primary is hard to set it off you need good secondary like PETN or ETN as for tatp and hmtd they are fine to make like 10 gramms batches they wont spontaneous go off.
It's not as scary as it looks. I can make a handful of explosives myself and this doesn't even phase me. The only thing I have the knowledge to do but too terrified of is nitroglycerin. Something I make a lot of though that's really fun is thermite. Ended up melting a scrapped piece of a railroad track with the stuff.
It depends on alot of things especially where you do it and what ventilation you use as you see reaction produce NOx which are toxic also nitro toluenes are toxic also sulfuric acid when hot is corrosive with good ventilation and the lab equipment from the video i will give it 2 or 3
So it goes straight to DNT in the first nitration step? I though the first step produced mononitrotoluene which then had do be renitrated twice to get to TNT
It is explosive video is not mine i still don't have TNT if i had i would show that it can explode but it's still very inert compared to other explosives.
@nfpa4957 ya, water is formed during the mixing of the two acid but why using excess nitrating mixture would not give tnt? may be giving more time would work
@@henokbrehanu9426 for the first nitration is not excess for the second I don't know how much he uses but i have read in order to attach final nitro group on toluene you need excess acid and constant heating. Water mainly forms when hydrogen is liberated from toluene and reacts with the OH ion left from the nitric acid
@nfpa4957 OK, but it is a very dangerous process anyway, especially if you have to heat it at the third nitration because tnt is being formed at this stage. May be you have to optimize the time as most organic reactions take a long time. If cia or anybody is curious, I am here to get a general knowledge on all nitration reactions for my project on rocket propellants. Be safe on your work
No Google tem conteúdo dizendo que TNT é mais barato que RDX ou PETN! Com muito menos trabalho que isso tudo aí, e com só uma nitração e dois únicos reagentes, eu faço uns 3 quilos de RDX ou PETN! O conteúdo é muito bom! Mas é uma pena que o TNT não seja mais viável.
Yes i think TNT is the cheapest for industrial scales also RDX is cheap because of the percursor hexamine but TNT has the advantage because of its melting point and storage stability
Did you watch the video? There was never any cellulose in the process. DNT is dinitrotoluene, which was nitrated again to trinitrotoluene. And this video reminds me how annoyed I get when people call dynamite “TNT”. I’m not a chemist either, just have some basic knowledge…
I think it is more dangerous to not share this video because people could do it wrong without this good tutorial, and they could damage themselves or other people
Bruh moment.. You really think YT moderates every upload when like 2 month of footage is uploaded every secod? I found TNT synthesis descriptionsonline in web1.0 during the '90s, just to discard the idea for effort and concentrations needed. And if you think making/owning TNT is dangerous per se, you probably don't know how it works and havent seen 'Extractions and Ire' or Styropyro channels, never mind available tutorials on making things ending is -phetamine.. ))
@@nfpa4957 but the DNT yield is 15.36 grams... right? also im convinced that at 10:40 it says 15.99, its just a dirty spot on the scale + low quality make it look like 75...
@@nfpa4957 okay, then how does 15 grams of DNT get nitrated into 75grams of TNT, i dont know much about the synth of tnt but that seems odd. I could be that he combined a few earlier batches for the MeOH recryst
Nice happy family. Meanwhile, while he's making ultra pure TNT, wifey plants strawberries in the pot right next to his mixer (3:32). "Oh, honey, lets use this ultra pure tnt to blow your pot to hell?" "Oh yes, baby, that's why I was planting it while you made it" Another fun day! On another note, what was the black spot over the reaction chamber as you began (0:54)? Will other organic solvents behave like tolulene in this process? and most interestingly - I wonder how this process is safely industrialized for mass output? And no, I'm not interested in having pounds of tnt lying around for blowing up pots. Fun note - as you saw, the TNT is temperature sensitive (bad use of words, sensitive in the solidous/liquidous sense) and solid at room temperature - tnt boosters are industrially cast in cardboard tubes with little detonator holes cast in the center and used as boosters for ammonium nitrate in industrial mining operations - they measure about 2" dia x 4" long and they use up to 3 per blast hole, sometimes putting one set at the bottom and one set in the middle of the charge. They use a LOT of tnt for that, which is why I wonder how the process, which seems a bit involved, intricate and time and material consuming here, is done enmasse. (btw - it's quite stable) Sierra Chemical Company, now by another name, manufactured these boosters. One day, a migrant worker did something wrong and blooey, up went the whole works. We saw the smoke plume from town, about 7 or 8 miles away. The vat, or whatever, they were melting in - or maybe it was during the casting process (they were very tight lipped about the whole thing, guess they didn't want the general public to know what they were doing so close to town) detonated. The explosion wasn't what you'd think - it did destroy most of that part of the building, but the whole tnt stock didn't go up - a testament to the stability of tnt and why it's one of the choice industrial explosives. Ah, for the days when you could go buy dynamite at the hardware store and use it for good purposes - F'n terrorists - ruining everything for honest folk and giving ATF a job to do. Nice video
This is a plastic explosive and needs an initiator like PETN just don't caught with this stuff as you will most certainly go to prison for a very long time or face the Death Penalty on Terrorist Charges.
This is not plastic explosive plastic explosives have plastificators and binders to make them like dough so they can be easily made in different shapes TNT is powder that can be meltcasted and its not plastic. And second my country don't have death penalty and also its not terrorism its basic chemistry and this video is not mine.
Tnt production cannot be done in this way, my friend, the nitration process of tnt is done in batch and slow forms with the results of a mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid with toluene. tnt is industrially synthesized in 3 steps.
It can video shows there is no matter if you going first to make MNT then to DNT and to TNT you can directly nitrate to DNT and then to TNT it just requires hight temperature thats why its refluxed if it was so hard the TNT wasnt going to be one of the first explosives. There is no difference between using nitric acid or nitrate salts i think even salts produce more concentrated nitric acid i have done nitrations to both glycerol and erythritol using nitrate salts. If you watch the video to the end you will see that he got 75g of TNT and tests the melting point.
@@nfpa4957yes i just realized , you tried to synthesize it in 2 steps . However, for a good commercial tnt sample, I recommend performing it in 3 stages and using oleum with 15% free sulfur trioxide and fuming nitric acid in the 3rd stage
@@nfpa4957This method is faster and more practical. But if I were you, I would do this process in 3 stages and clean the material with 5% sodium bisulfite solution. Again, congratulations on the job.
@@abdurrahmanfurkankose5024 This video is not mine congratulations to the creator i reuploaded it, btw the pureness depends on the recrystallization and sodium bisulfate cleans he got very pure TNT on the end almost white crystals the advantage on the industrial way is that they got better yeld and maybe it takes less time to nitrate but oleum is impossible to obtain and plus its very bad to deal with sulfur trioxide fumes. The thing that stops me from making TNT are the toxic waste that is generated during the synthesis.
You can. The French had a 2 step process. The 1st nitration makes mono heating up said soultion makes dnt. Then new batch of acid and heating makes tnt
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Hi man you are absolutely fantastic i can’t believe it if you did the last step again using nitrate salt instead HNO3, anyway i done this process a few times during student and I finished the last step using 95% Nitric acid at 100-110C temperature holding it around 1-2hour.. for me hardest thing was the purifying it.. even my teacher didn’t know how to can do it;) I used ethanol, aceton but its always make a lot of red water without success.. after more than 25 years finally I understood this can be done using methanol… a lot of thanks
This video is not mine but purification step includes sodium sulfite washes btw what is the difference between conc HNO3 and nitrate salt conc hno3 is made the same way only where its destilled why can't be used the mix without destination for Cyclonite for example sulfuric acid decompose it and thats why conc hno3 is used here reaction needs sulfuric acid for solvent for DNT so with little excess sulfuric acid i think second nitration can be done
@@nfpa4957yes, thanks for this info, I understood, what I didn’t know was the suitable solvent for Recrystallization..
just Im not make sure if in the purification process ( diluted H2SO4 step ) was needed to be neutralize the acid by washing it using Sodium carbonate solution or just can go to the last step which was dissolving it into Methanol?
@@tomspeed2000 i think u can wash it with water only and then do the recrystallization but TNT thats after sodium sulfite wash is military grade i mean its pure enough to be used the other steps are if you want to obtain pure TNT.
@@nfpa4957You are Fantastic… many thanks
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I watched it, am I in a watchlist now? 😂
Nice 50 gram pour! That was slick.
Pretty crystals. Not sure why I was expecting end result to be reddish substance like in cartoons.
Solubilidad: miscible con agua, etanol, éter, benceno, cetonas y muchos otros disolventes orgánicos. Disuelve una gran variedad de sales inorgánicas por ejemplo 43 % de yoduro de sodio, 22 % de cloruro de calcio, 4 % de nitrato de plata, 3.2 % de cloruro de amonio y 1.4 % de cloruro de sodio.
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If the solution is overheated by adding a large amount of toluene, a large amount of brown gas is formed. Will it be possible to make TNT from the remaining liquid?
Hard to say the maybe with lower yelds.
@@nfpa4957 In this way I obtained a yellow translucent liquid with a strong odor of nitrogen dioxide and toluene, without any particles. Does it make sense to heat it up?
An effective high explosive, but highly toxic to make. There are far safer explosives to make with equivalent power
Yes and it makes good mixes with other compounds like PETN but the other problems are that there is alot of toxic waste after the synthesis and yelds aren't that good as for example ETN or PETN.
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можно, но процедура будет сложнее.
Tolueno y se suele conseguir la nitración empleando una mezcla de ácido nítrico y ácido sulfúrico. El proceso de fabricación es mucho más complicado que simplemente mezclar esos tres componentes, claro. Se llevan a cabo tres fases de nitración distintas, una para añadir el primer grupo NO2 al tolueno, obteniéndose nitrotolueno; una segunda fase para convertir éste en dinitrotolueno (DNT), y una tercera, en que el DNT se transforma en TNT por adición del tercer grupo NO2. Posteriormente hay que cristalizar el TNT y separarlo de la mezcla nitrante por filtrado o por enfriado.
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No shit sherlock...
Pero como vamos a separar los enantiómeros de tnt?
@@shepardsinsequence TNT does not have enantiomers. And isomers can be washed using sulfite, replacing one nitrogroup with a sulfogroup.
@@rogermorrison2968 touché, Nitro groups have some intriguing chemistry
How about potassium nitrate? Same ammounts? Or would you need more potassium nitrate to get the right ammount of nitric acid?
Pottasium nitrate will leave pottasium sulfate which will made the mix very thick you can use sodium nitrate and you will need to readjust the molar ratios.
@nfpa4957 yes but all nitrate salts leave behind sulfate. Including ammonium nitrate. Can't you simply decant off the solution and leave behind the sulfate? Which it looks like you do in your synthesis
@@prestonhanson501 you can't it creates something like thin emulsion with sulfuric acid you have to filter it and I don't see a way to filter nitration mix
@@nfpa4957 no you can't filter that for sure. Good call. Thanks for your input
If you need to ask these questions. You don't need to do this synthesis!!!!!. Don't kill yourself. Learn the chemistry.
WOW, insane recipe.
Yep
Is the second nitration mixture same mixture we did previously by mixing ammonium nitrate and nitric acid
Yep i think so
Hey do can please upload any video how to make this practically explosive or how to detonate. I heard that we should probably melt TNT into shells but there is no a whole lot of info here in youtube
@@laserfacts5466 You need secondary explosive like etn or petn in order to surely set off tnt you can either melt it or use it pressed you can melt it in boiling water bath then pour it and leave something to leave a hole in the cast so you can stick the detonator inside
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So I'm guessing this is purer than the commercial grade stuff? Or is the yellow color caused by additives when produced?
On the end after methanol recrystallization its purer i think yellowness is caused by lower nitrates and other decomposition products but for detonation purposes dosent require to be pure.
thats so cool!! can you make tutorial how to extract psilocybin from psilocybe fungi?
I can't but it will be pretty hard to isolate pure material.
I can only predict a horrible medical emergency for you if you try this.
@@snowflakemelter1172 nothing can be predicted:)
Chemistry is amazing. I wonder who the first guy was who tried it and didn't know to keep the mixture from getting too hot?
Probably it was done on small scale and he didn't had to worry about haha
I only watch this video because I like the soundtrack, fedbois.
Lol
The nitration process is by using mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid, so it would be better to use them instead of KNO3, however it will still work.
Yep
To do this, you will first have to prepare 100% HNO₃.
Yeah, making fuming sulfuric acid isn't that hard but it's annoying to do
@@elanti-furrodelrancho3499 It is not difficult to prepare a concentrated one. But fuming acid (oleum) is not easy to prepare even in a good laboratory.
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... or you could just mix the AN from the first step with some additives and blow that stuff up.😄
It's interesting though, but I would never do that, while other explosives are so much easier and even stronger than TNT.
Yep you are right but TNT has its properties like it can be meltcast with other explosives like PETN and this meltcasts are very good for shaped charges and TNT is very good for storage and it's stable.
Im assuming the process for picric acid, trinitrophenol (also an explosive) would be the same?
It needs to react with sulfuric acid only to form sulfono phenol i think but process is similar and in most cases reflux is no needed
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It’s odd how easy most high explosives are to make
Obviously I understand making them WELL is more difficult
@@galleryofrogues its easy in video but in real it takes much more time you have to do it whole day and the preparation before that also takes hours.
@@nfpa4957 makes sense
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Would there be a regular cookbook?
Have know idea why i love watching chemistry on the tube but ty!
Same but doing it is even more fun it just takes alot of time and cleaning after.
How much exactly sulphuric acid were used? 200ml?
What was the concentration of this h2so4?
200ml this video is not mine but its concentrated for sure maybe 95%+
@nfpa4957 I didn't even know that you can make TNT without oleum.
Thx for responding and for sharing this procedure. Have a good one mate
@@Krzysix.io11 Thank you, they use oleum for industrial scales there the reaction must be adjusted to yeld maximum product.
Keys to this reaction: very, very, pure toluene (even a single benzene ring lacking the tri-methyl group will break the reaction) and very cold. Not clear how you were successful with 75C temps ... have only ever been able to be successful if I kept the bulk tmep in the 0C or below level. Use a dry ice/alcohol bath to stay cold.
Final nitro group will be hard to attach with temperatures below 50c and i don't think toluene must be ultra pure because its produces in tons from around 90 years TNT is pretty chemically stable.
I must be getting old, because I think y’all are crazy making this at more than maybe a 50mg scale.
There was a time I would have tried, but fortunately lived through that phase of my life!
With 50mg you can't do other things with it :)
@@nfpa4957 w..what things?😳
TNT is a very stable secondary explosive. You can: burn it, smash it and grind it and wont detonate. Your statement would be valid if you were making, say, TATP, HMTD, silver or mercury fulminate, lead picrate (or the acid), azides or lead styphnate (all those are primary high explosives). With 50mg of TNT you'd probably need like 200mg of lead azide to set it off... Which is a waste.
@@DaNiKzz Even with only primary is hard to set it off you need good secondary like PETN or ETN as for tatp and hmtd they are fine to make like 10 gramms batches they wont spontaneous go off.
It's not as scary as it looks. I can make a handful of explosives myself and this doesn't even phase me. The only thing I have the knowledge to do but too terrified of is nitroglycerin. Something I make a lot of though that's really fun is thermite. Ended up melting a scrapped piece of a railroad track with the stuff.
How dangerous is this on a 1-10 1 being safe and 10 being bouncing a tennis ball filled with tatp
It depends on alot of things especially where you do it and what ventilation you use as you see reaction produce NOx which are toxic also nitro toluenes are toxic also sulfuric acid when hot is corrosive with good ventilation and the lab equipment from the video i will give it 2 or 3
@@nfpa4957 ok thank you
Yep
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Awesome, i was expecting detonation test though...
Video is not mine
Synthesis of Trinitrotoluene (reupload)
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So it goes straight to DNT in the first nitration step? I though the first step produced mononitrotoluene which then had do be renitrated twice to get to TNT
Yes but it can be done in single step to DNT
What should the measurements be based on to make it at the desired weight?
Molar weight
Now that I watched this, I'm gonna be on some list...😕
Probably
was expecting explosion at the end ;p
Hi ammonium nitrate hard to come by can i used potassium nitrate instead maybe?
Im not sure how efficient it will work
12:23 why is it not blue? If it's not blue it's not pure
Is that RFNA in the first step?
Wow, lookat all that NO2.😳
What is the melting point of TNT?
Ammonium nitrate is used NO2 is normal to occur during this type of nitration the melting point of TNT is around 80c as i remember
I'm surprised it didn't explode on flame contact.
That's not primary it cannot explode on flame contact
Why didn't it explode?
The college always teaches that TNT is explosive.
It is explosive video is not mine i still don't have TNT if i had i would show that it can explode but it's still very inert compared to other explosives.
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sounds complicated... I thought it was just gunpowder and sand
Still close
Am I on a bloody list after watching this?
I don't know.
@@nfpa4957 Let's hope not. Excellent video though.
@@curbyourshi1056 Video is not made by me but thanks.
@@nfpa4957Thanks for the reupload then bro. 👊
Yeah we definitely are. I dont know how to explain the power chemistry videos have to put me to sleep to my fbi agent watching me now.
Why not overnitrating happens to yield the TNT in a single step because, the methyl group on tule is activating? Just curious
I think some water is generated until DNT is reached diluting the acid and its better to nitrate DNT to TNT in third nitration
@nfpa4957 ya, water is formed during the mixing of the two acid but why using excess nitrating mixture would not give tnt? may be giving more time would work
@@henokbrehanu9426 for the first nitration is not excess for the second I don't know how much he uses but i have read in order to attach final nitro group on toluene you need excess acid and constant heating. Water mainly forms when hydrogen is liberated from toluene and reacts with the OH ion left from the nitric acid
@nfpa4957 OK, but it is a very dangerous process anyway, especially if you have to heat it at the third nitration because tnt is being formed at this stage. May be you have to optimize the time as most organic reactions take a long time. If cia or anybody is curious, I am here to get a general knowledge on all nitration reactions for my project on rocket propellants. Be safe on your work
@@henokbrehanu9426 Why nothing worse than runway can happen
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No Google tem conteúdo dizendo que TNT é mais barato que RDX ou PETN! Com muito menos trabalho que isso tudo aí, e com só uma nitração e dois únicos reagentes, eu faço uns 3 quilos de RDX ou PETN! O conteúdo é muito bom! Mas é uma pena que o TNT não seja mais viável.
Yes i think TNT is the cheapest for industrial scales also RDX is cheap because of the percursor hexamine but TNT has the advantage because of its melting point and storage stability
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at time 5:58 what is added to DNT to form tnt?
The same nitrating solution used to nitrate toluene to dinitrotoluene (ammonium nitrate + sulphuric acid).
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Can't understand what you mean
@@nfpa4957 IS DNT NITROCELLULOSE?
DNT = Dinitrotoluene
Did you watch the video? There was never any cellulose in the process. DNT is dinitrotoluene, which was nitrated again to trinitrotoluene.
And this video reminds me how annoyed I get when people call dynamite “TNT”. I’m not a chemist either, just have some basic knowledge…
@@mariamalfonso5483 no, nitrocellulose is nitrocellulose. completely different.
Can you tell me the composition of TNT or where I can find out
Trinitrotoluene
@@nfpa4957 How much is needed to make 250 gr or 500 gr test purpose
will i be able to synthesize this in hot environments? i live near the equator so im scared it will blow up
It won't as you see this reaction even require heat you just need to cool it as you add the toluene to prevent formation of other products
i am really shocked youtube company agreed to upload and store this dangerous video
Dangerous ? What is dangerous about it
I think it is more dangerous to not share this video because people could do it wrong without this good tutorial, and they could damage themselves or other people
Bruh moment..
You really think YT moderates every upload when like 2 month of footage is uploaded every secod? I found TNT synthesis descriptionsonline in web1.0 during the '90s, just to discard the idea for effort and concentrations needed. And if you think making/owning TNT is dangerous per se, you probably don't know how it works and havent seen 'Extractions and Ire' or Styropyro channels, never mind available tutorials on making things ending is -phetamine.. ))
mm nice, but ong! the low yield hurts
it isnt that bad its 75 gramms
@@nfpa4957 but the DNT yield is 15.36 grams... right? also im convinced that at 10:40 it says 15.99, its just a dirty spot on the scale + low quality make it look like 75...
@@karolus28 i think just the 7 looks like 1 volume seems more than 15g
@@nfpa4957 okay, then how does 15 grams of DNT get nitrated into 75grams of TNT, i dont know much about the synth of tnt but that seems odd. I could be that he combined a few earlier batches for the MeOH recryst
@@karolus28 The DNT is not 15 its 75 if you zoom you will see its seven not one 75 grams of DNT to 75 grams of TNT is normal.
Nice happy family. Meanwhile, while he's making ultra pure TNT, wifey plants strawberries in the pot right next to his mixer (3:32). "Oh, honey, lets use this ultra pure tnt to blow your pot to hell?" "Oh yes, baby, that's why I was planting it while you made it" Another fun day!
On another note, what was the black spot over the reaction chamber as you began (0:54)? Will other organic solvents behave like tolulene in this process? and most interestingly - I wonder how this process is safely industrialized for mass output? And no, I'm not interested in having pounds of tnt lying around for blowing up pots.
Fun note - as you saw, the TNT is temperature sensitive (bad use of words, sensitive in the solidous/liquidous sense) and solid at room temperature - tnt boosters are industrially cast in cardboard tubes with little detonator holes cast in the center and used as boosters for ammonium nitrate in industrial mining operations - they measure about 2" dia x 4" long and they use up to 3 per blast hole, sometimes putting one set at the bottom and one set in the middle of the charge. They use a LOT of tnt for that, which is why I wonder how the process, which seems a bit involved, intricate and time and material consuming here, is done enmasse. (btw - it's quite stable)
Sierra Chemical Company, now by another name, manufactured these boosters. One day, a migrant worker did something wrong and blooey, up went the whole works. We saw the smoke plume from town, about 7 or 8 miles away. The vat, or whatever, they were melting in - or maybe it was during the casting process (they were very tight lipped about the whole thing, guess they didn't want the general public to know what they were doing so close to town) detonated. The explosion wasn't what you'd think - it did destroy most of that part of the building, but the whole tnt stock didn't go up - a testament to the stability of tnt and why it's one of the choice industrial explosives.
Ah, for the days when you could go buy dynamite at the hardware store and use it for good purposes - F'n terrorists - ruining everything for honest folk and giving ATF a job to do. Nice video
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why the condenser?
For reflux in order for nitric acid not to escape before the reaction is finished
Not an industrial process.
Yep
Did he use oleum when nitrating DNT to TNT?
Nope sulfuric acid
So the second nitrating mixture was same as the first one?
@@edithrcan9141 Yes
@nfpa4957 no fuckin shit it worked, I need to make it then
This is a plastic explosive and needs an initiator like PETN just don't caught with this stuff as you will most certainly go to prison for a very long time or face the Death Penalty on Terrorist Charges.
This is not plastic explosive plastic explosives have plastificators and binders to make them like dough so they can be easily made in different shapes TNT is powder that can be meltcasted and its not plastic. And second my country don't have death penalty and also its not terrorism its basic chemistry and this video is not mine.
@@nfpa4957Sorry but Trinitrotoluene is TNT just stay safe and stay within the law.
6:12 endothermic?
Means it gives heat and the temperature goes up
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Yep but to get this exact material this is probably the best route
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Video is not mine.
@@nfpa4957 credits to the creator
@@mariamalfonso5483 I put them both in the video and in description.
Toluene ?
Yes
Fbi
Out of their operation zone
Is it 99.9999% pure TNT
Idk how percentage but by the looks is pretty pure.
Sounds clean. So how much to get high?
@@realryder2626 U can't get high from TNT
@nfpa4957 ok what can i make than?
@@realryder2626 Don't ask me
Why
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Geksagen plis
No its toluene
@@nfpa4957 geksagen plis
@@arlekino2690no ic tolyuene
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What you mean?
Ultra uneffective and wasteful method.
Name other method that isn't for industry
@@nfpa4957What is the method for industry and is it more convenient?
Скажи какое вещество самое мощное которое ты взрывал в равных пропорциях?
Я не знаю, что вы подразумеваете под равными пропорциями. но мой най-мощнии бьл литой ЕТН
why is a condensor used, can the nitration also be perforned in a normal erlenmeyer flask?
Condensor is to prevent nitric acid from vaporizing because it takes time to react its called reflux and i think it can be done in Erlenmeyer flask
@@nfpa4957 would i need to use more sulfuric acid and an, its very interesting chemistry
Tnt production cannot be done in this way, my friend, the nitration process of tnt is done in batch and slow forms with the results of a mixture of sulfuric acid and nitric acid with toluene. tnt is industrially synthesized in 3 steps.
It can video shows there is no matter if you going first to make MNT then to DNT and to TNT you can directly nitrate to DNT and then to TNT it just requires hight temperature thats why its refluxed if it was so hard the TNT wasnt going to be one of the first explosives. There is no difference between using nitric acid or nitrate salts i think even salts produce more concentrated nitric acid i have done nitrations to both glycerol and erythritol using nitrate salts. If you watch the video to the end you will see that he got 75g of TNT and tests the melting point.
@@nfpa4957yes i just realized , you tried to synthesize it in 2 steps . However, for a good commercial tnt sample, I recommend performing it in 3 stages and using oleum with 15% free sulfur trioxide and fuming nitric acid in the 3rd stage
@@nfpa4957This method is faster and more practical. But if I were you, I would do this process in 3 stages and clean the material with 5% sodium bisulfite solution. Again, congratulations on the job.
@@abdurrahmanfurkankose5024 This video is not mine congratulations to the creator i reuploaded it, btw the pureness depends on the recrystallization and sodium bisulfate cleans he got very pure TNT on the end almost white crystals the advantage on the industrial way is that they got better yeld and maybe it takes less time to nitrate but oleum is impossible to obtain and plus its very bad to deal with sulfur trioxide fumes. The thing that stops me from making TNT are the toxic waste that is generated during the synthesis.
You can. The French had a 2 step process. The 1st nitration makes mono heating up said soultion makes dnt. Then new batch of acid and heating makes tnt