Improvised Explosives
Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine or cyclonite is manufactured in bulk by the nitration of hexamethylenetetramine (methenamine, hexamine) with strong red 100% nitric acid. The hardest part of this reaction is obtaining this red nitric acid. It will most likely have to be made. More on this later. The hexamine or methenamine can usually be bought in bulk quantities or hexamine fuel bars for camp stoves can be used but...