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Trinitrotriazine

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Trinitrotriazine, or 2,4,6-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine, is a potential explosive. It can be made by reacting triazine with nitric acid and a sulfuric acid catalyst:

C3H3N3 + 3 HNO3 → C3N3(NO2)3 + 3 H2O

It may explode without the addition of oxygen or any other reactant:

C3N3(NO2)3 → 3 CO2 + 3 N2