On 26 May 2018 at 16:03, Thomas Jones-Low wrote:

> 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.

You want scary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octaazacubane

More than 5 times as powerful as TNT. And it decomposes into nitrogen
gas (so no toxic fumes).

Then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_gauche_nitrogen
which is 50% more energetic.

For that matter, metallic hydrogen (if it turns out to be metastable)
would be around 50 times as powerful as TNT. Of course, all those
very energetic hydrogen ions encountewring oxygen (and nitrogen) in
air would boost things a fair bit.

If you want something less drastic try
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octanitrocubane