Pressure-cooking of explosives-the crystal structure of epsilon-RDX as determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction

Millar, David I. A. and Oswald, Iain D. H. and Barry, Christopher and Francis, Duncan J. and Marshall, William G. and Pulham, Colin R. and Cumming, Adam S. (2010) Pressure-cooking of explosives-the crystal structure of epsilon-RDX as determined by X-ray and neutron diffraction. Chemical Communications (London), 46 (31). pp. 5662-5664. ISSN 0009-241X (https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cc00368a)

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Abstract

The high-pressure, high-temperature epsilon-form of the widely used explosive RDX has been structurally characterised using a combination of diffraction techniques, and a sample of this form has been successfully recovered to ambient pressure.