Voorbeelden van trinitrotoluene

• It was found that the compound trinitrotoluene could easily be split into its elements and toluene would result.

• Nitration reactions are notably used for the production of explosives, for example the conversion of guanidine to nitroguanidine and the conversion of toluene to trinitrotoluene.

• Blood and liver effects, spleen enlargement and other harmful effects on the immune system have also been found in animals that ingested or breathed trinitrotoluene.

• For example, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene is oxidized to the corresponding carboxylic acid.

• Examples of materials with negative oxygen balance are e.g. trinitrotoluene (-74%), aluminium powder (-89%), sulfur (-100%), or carbon (-266.7%).

• Drugs associated with sulfhemoglobinemia include acetanilid, phenacetin, nitrates, trinitrotoluene and sulfur compounds (mainly sulphonamides, sulfasalazine).

• Mixtures of ordinary nitric acid in sulfuric acid therefore contain substantial amounts of water and are unsuitable for processes such as occur in the manufacture of trinitrotoluene.