On 5/26/2018 3:48 PM, Timothy Collinson wrote:

> I needed to name some TL4 explosives (on Pysadi, harvesting howood) and
> came up with quadroglycerine - it was supposed to be a sort of homage to
> triticale being turned into quadrotriticale for Star Trek's Trouble With
> Tribbles episode.  But is the nature of glycerine such that that's just
> completely ridiculous?
>

	Welll, there is Nitroglycerin aka trinitroglycerine, and Trinitrotoluene (aka
TNT). Glycerine doesn't have the attachment for additional nitrogen groups.

	TNT on the other hand. In theory, since the core of toluene is a benzene ring,
you can attach up to 6 NO2 groups. Of course these are unstable, and adding more
makes the explosive more powerful. So QNT would be really scary stuff.

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