ammonal
Sign in to saveAmmonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder. TNT is added to create T-ammonal which improves properties such as brisance. The mixture is often referred to as Tannerite, which is a brand of ammonal.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Ammonal
- Weapon.image
- Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt mine (1 July 1916) 1.jpg
- Weapon.caption
- The explosion of 18,400 kilograms (40,600 lb) of ammonal under Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, 1 July 1916
- Weapon.origin
- United Kingdom
- Weapon.type
- Explosive
- Weapon.is_explosive
- yes
- Weapon.wars
- World War I
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- explosive chemicals
- Has part
- aluminium
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder. TNT is added to create T-ammonal which improves properties such as brisance. The mixture is often referred to as Tannerite, which is a brand of ammonal.
The ammonium nitrate functions as an oxidizer and the aluminium as fuel. The use of the relatively cheap ammonium nitrate and aluminium makes it a replacement for pure TNT.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ammonal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.