Sciencemadness Discussion Board - Cyanuric Triazide

Cyanuric Triazide

pdb - 1-7-2005 at 02:10

It is always a nice day when the opportunity is given to prepare a new primary... This one is reported to be dual, both primary and HE (VoD about 5500 m/s and high power due to absence of heavy metal cation). It also has a melting point of 94°C without decomposition, which may open new or specific uses.

Synthesis

(attached is a picture of the main steps)

CTA detonates at flame contact with no noticeable DDT. Mechanical sensitivity not tested yet. Dropped in boiling water, the crystals melt immediately and gather in globules whose size and number depend on the intensity and velocity of stirring. By progressive addition of cold water or slow cooling, these globules solidify, yielding to a dense free-flowing powder. CTA specific density is 1.5 g/cc.

[Edited on 2-7-2005 by pdb]

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chemoleo - 1-7-2005 at 05:40

Very interesting, pdb.
Why is it called 'cyanur' triazide, isn't the starting compound C3N3Cl3 1,3,5 trichloro 2,4,6 triazine, whose monomer is a very nasty carcinogenic and toxic compound, cyanogen chloride(NC-Cl))?

(Whereas cyanur chloride, or trichloro isocyanuric acid is (O=C-NCl)3, So C3N3O3Cl3, where the chlorine is bound to the N, however. )Have I got something mixed up with the nomenclature?

Anyway, did you make the C3N3Cl3 yourself? How?

Rosco Bodine - 1-7-2005 at 07:56

The cyanuric chloride precursor is isomeric with TCCA , but is a different compound entirely . And TCCA cannot be substituted in the synthesis of cyanuric azide .

There is an alternate route by diazotization of cyanuric trihydrazide described in the original patent .

GB170359 Manufacture of a New Explosive

I believe the cyanuric trihydrazide is likely an even more difficult precursor than is the cyanuric chloride for the better known method with sodium azide . Cyanuric trihydrazide differs from hydrazine cyanurate which is a very easily made hydrazine-cyanuric acid salt . It might
be worthwhile to experiment with a diazotization of the easily made hydrazine cyanurate anyway , just to see if anything of interest may result .

Either of the patents methods are going to require precursors which are difficult ,
specialty organic compounds . And given the reported storage stability issues for
cyanuric triazide , along with its expense of production due to the difficult precursors , it seems to be more of an interest as an academic curiosity , than a practical material . A method using more common precursors would increase interest in the material . But its stability issues would still rule out its acceptance for any commercial use because of more stable alternatives which have become
well proven standards .

pdb - 1-7-2005 at 09:13

I used commercial grade C3N3Cl3.

Rosco: I think quite hard to find extensive information about CTA beyond common knowledge (Fedoroff, Urbanski, COPAE, GB patent etc).

However, I own minutes from some evaluation tests. They report spontaneous detonations when growing large crystals (quite common with primaries), and also when drying amorpheous powder obtained by sudden precipitation in ice water (less common). But they do not say anything about stability of molten CTA once solidified. Any information on this precise feature would be welcome.

They also describe ignition tests of CTA/TNT mixures, 80:20 and 50:50. The former detonates at flame contact.

I agree CTA is more an lab curiosity than a compound to consider for industrial uses. However, my interest in this stuff is only driven by its ability to be loaded in molten state.

[Edited on 2-7-2005 by pdb]

Rosco Bodine - 1-7-2005 at 12:34

Davis reports that it melts at 94 C but
decomposes above 100 C . And it is also reported that there are sometimes explosions when the finely crystalline material is press loaded . The material
is slightly hygroscopic and also slightly volatile , requiring the use of sealed caps .

None of these properties are in favor of the material being used in comparison to
better alternatives .

In the next article in COPAE , Davis describes trinitrotriazidobenzene made by reaction of sodium azide with trichlorotrinitrobenzene , another difficult precursor . An interesting experiment might be to nitrate paradichlorobenzene moth crystals , using a sulfuric and nitrate mixture , to form trinitrodichlorobenzene ,
and then do a similar reaction with sodium azide to form trinitrodiazidobenzene , which may also have properties of a primary explosive .
It should have good stability and power .

I have never seen the compound mentioned anywhere . So this is one for pure experimentation .

Axt - 2-7-2005 at 11:32

<center>I like numbers.</center>

<center><table border="1" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="FFFBE8" ><tr><td rowspan="2"><center>AZIDE</td><td colspan="3"><center>Pendulum Friction</td><td rowspan="2"><center>Impact fall 500g weight</td><td rowspan="2"><center>Explosion temperature</td></tr><tr><td><center>Added weight in kg</td><td><center>Fall</td><td><center># of swings</td></tr><tr><td><center>Pb(N3

2</td><td><center>0.45</td><td><center>37.5</td><td><center>12</td><td><center>43</td><td><center>383°C</td></tr><tr><td><center>AgN3</td><td><center>4.35</td><td><center>33.0</td><td><center>30</td><td><center>41</td><td><center>273°C</td></tr><tr><td><center>HgN3</td><td><center>1.00</td><td><center>50.0</td><td><center>16</td><td><center>6</td><td><center>298°C</td></tr><tr><td><center>(CN)3(N3

3</td><td><center>0.00</td><td><center>12.5</td><td><center>3</td><td><center>7</td><td><center>252°C</td></tr></table>

<table border="1" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="FFFBE8"><tr><td rowspan="2"><center>Charge Weight</td><td colspan="4"><center>Weight of sand crushed finer then 30 mesh</td></tr><tr><td><center>Mercury fulminate</td><td><center>Lead azide</td><td><center>Silver azide</td><td><center>Cyanuric triazide</td></tr><tr><td><center>grams</td><td><center>grams</td><td><center>grams</td><td><center>grams</td><td><center>grams</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.10</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>3.3</td><td><center>4.8</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.20</td><td><center>3.8</td><td><center>5.9</td><td><center>6.8</td><td><center>12.2</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.30</td><td><center>8.0</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>10.4</td><td><center>-</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.40</td><td><center>12.2</td><td><center>12.7</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>33.2</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.50</td><td><center>16.0</td><td><center>16.1</td><td><center>18.9</td><td><center>-</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.60</td><td><center>20.1</td><td><center>20.9</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>54.4</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.75</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>30.0</td><td><center>-</td></tr><tr><td><center>0.80</td><td><center>28.2</td><td><center>28.5</td><td><center>-</td><td><center>68.9</td></tr><tr><td><center>1.00</td><td><center>36.8</td><td><center>33.6</td><td><center>41.1</td><td><center>78.6</td></tr></table></center>

<center> Taylor and Rinkenback: J. Franklin Inst. 204, 369 (1927).</center>

[Edited on 2-7-2005 by Axt]

Rosco Bodine - 2-7-2005 at 12:43

Numbers are good if you factor in everything , like accounting for the
percentage of the metallic component
as if it were " ballast " , and then
looking at the impulse developed
when that " ballast " is hurled by
the energetic component , to arrive
at how efficiently is the energy released ,
on an azo group by azo group basis .

And then there's also the matter of density , which has bearing on the potential output per unit volume of charge , more important really in
measuring practical explosive " power "
in terms of ability to do actual work ,
than sand test figures for given weights
of charge which have great density differences .

These kind of factors that apply greatly
when device " A " is acting upon
target " B " and which blows the biggest hole in such tests , using identical size
devices , is highly relevant for detonators .

Axt - 2-7-2005 at 14:01

True the numbers dont usually lie, but the interpretation of them might.

More figures of interest.

"According to Kast and Haid (141) it develops a maximum detonation velocity of approximately 7500 meters per second when compressed to a density of 1.54, whereas the figure for lead azide with density of 4.6 is 5300 meters per second." Kast & Haid: Z. angew. Chem. 38, 43 (1925).

EDIT: Relationships for compression to VOD's.

Cyanuric triazide
1.4g/cm3 under 200 atmospheres per cm3
1.5g/cm3 under 800 atmospheres per cm3
VOD = 5550m/s @ 1.15g/cm3

Pb azide requires 800 atmospheres to achieve 3.5g/cm3 (crystal density is 4.79g/cm3

. VOD = 4500 @ 3.80g/cm3.

ref. Muraour: Bull. soc. chim. [4] 61, 1152 (1932).

[Edited on 3-7-2005 by Axt]

Rosco Bodine - 2-7-2005 at 14:26

I would think that in the overall evaluation
for performance in that group above ,
silver azide is probably the shining star .

And getting above that performance requires going to tetrazoles and their
complexes .

Cyanuric triazide is powerful yes , but personally I would compare it with silver fulminate and on stability it would probably lose there , which doesn't speak well of it .

A mixture of nitromannite and DDNP or some other primary would likely be more powerful and stable , and much less expense and trouble to make . There are
eutectic melts possible there too which would be more stable than cyanuric triazide .

Sand crush test result comparison.

Lambda - 2-7-2005 at 15:24

In the sand crush test, it looks like Mercury fulminate shows quit a long traject of DDT (deflagration to detonation transition) compared to Lead azide. At about and above 0.3 grams they look comparatively pared in the results. Cyanuric triazide shows relatively fast DDT even as low as 0.1 gram samples. Lead azide and silver azide behave relatively instantaneously, having a very short DDT, but less power than Cyanuric triazide. This lower power is atributed to the high precentage of heavy metalls lead and silver.

[Edited on 3-7-2005 by Lambda]

pdb - 2-7-2005 at 22:49

Lamda: CTA's DDT occurs in much smaller amounts than 0.1 g. I see virtually no difference -as far as I can observe without specific measuring device- with other primaries like Pb(N3)2, AgN3, AgONC, DPNA etc.

Rosco: a DDNP-MHN eutectic would certainly be less an hazard to handle, but stability over time might yet be questionnable because of MHN's "fragility". But the idea deserves a try.
I don't know if your comparison between CTA and AgONC is relevant (as many, I had numerous unexpected explosions with AgONC, all due to mechanical stresses, but no spontaneous detonation), but don't you think than CTA cristallized from melting should be less sensitive and less exposed to sublimation ?

garage chemist - 3-7-2005 at 02:52

I'm interested in the precursor cyanuric trichloride C3N3Cl3.
It is NOT the isomer of TCCA (C3N3O3Cl3).

Did you buy it from a chemical supplier (if yes, which?) or somewhere else (where and as what?) ? How expensive was it?

How would one go about synthesizing it?
Maybe Cyanuric acid + thionyl chloride?

Maybe it could be prepared fron TCCA by reduction. No idea what reducing agent to use however...

Or is the trimerization of cyanogen chloride the only possibility?
Cyanogen chloride isn't that difficult to make if you're able to make NaCN or KCN.
However, there are the usual hazards in handling, given the fact that ClCN is a nasty chemical warfare agent that causes irritation and pulmonary edema if inhaled.

[Edited on 3-7-2005 by garage chemist]

Rosco Bodine - 3-7-2005 at 06:46

Quote:

Originally posted by garage chemist
I'm interested in the precursor cyanuric trichloride C3N3Cl3.
It is NOT the isomer of TCCA (C3N3O3Cl3).

Pardon my brain fart , you are correct that cyanuric chloride is not isomeric . I honestly am not sure where I got that idea , perhaps a misidentification in an old text , or just my own ignoring the Oxygens on TCCA . The structures are similar and related is what I should have said . And I never actually tried the substitution of TCCA so it wouldn't hurt anything to experiment with it . I don't think it would work , but it might .

Quote:

Did you buy it from a chemical supplier (if yes, which?) or somewhere else (where and as what?) ? How expensive was it?

How would one go about synthesizing it?
Maybe Cyanuric acid + thionyl chloride?

IIRC , and that's a big " if "

, chlorination of cyanic acid under pressure is the industrial method , and PCl5 with cyanuric acid is one lab method .

Quote:

Maybe it could be prepared fron TCCA by reduction. No idea what reducing agent to use however...

Yeah , what is going to love the oxygens ,
but leave the chlorines alone .....

maybe ascorbic acid or ferrous sulfate ?

Quote:

Or is the trimerization of cyanogen chloride the only possibility?
Cyanogen chloride isn't that difficult to make if you're able to make NaCN or KCN.
However, there are the usual hazards in handling, given the fact that ClCN is a nasty chemical warfare agent that causes irritation and pulmonary edema if inhaled.

Maybe nitrogen trichloride in dilute form in a solvent with cyanuric acid is another idea .

Axt - 30-5-2008 at 18:22

There was an article posted into this forum regarding the preparation of cyanuric trichloride via HCN posted into this forum, though I'm damned if i can find it now. It's posibly in references section but I'm not sure. Does anyone know the one I speak of?

Sauron - 30-5-2008 at 19:01

I posted procedures to prepare TCT (cyanuric chloride, trichloro-s-triazine) by two methods:

1. From cyanogen chloride trimerization. Very hazardous procedure!

2. By chlorination of methyl thiocyanate. The product of the chlorination is a mixture from which TCT precipitates. The TCT is filtered off and purified. The filtrate is obnoxious and toxic, containing trichloromethyl sulfenyl chloride, thiophosgene, etc. Exhaustive chlorination of the mixture ends with carbon tetrachloride.

The second route is much safer than the first, but still needs doing in a hood.

Methyl thiocyanate can be purchased or prepared, its preparation starts with carbon disulfide. This has also been covered in my previous posts, q.v.

I am very curoious as to pdb's "commercial grade" of cyanuric chloride. What brand, what packaging, and where did you get it?

I have Merck and Acros reagent grades. Commercial grades such as made by Italy's Lonza, usually come only in 20 Kg fiber drums.

It is best to be very specific because there has been a great deal of confusion on this forum between CC (TCT) and TCCA which is a common swimming pool chlorinator. Related but not interchangeable.

Axt - 31-5-2008 at 03:12

Thanks Sauron, yep that must have been it.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=8330&a...

So just maybe, heat Na nitrite with Na acetate giving Na cyanide and Na bicarbonate. Pour some H2SO4 into a measuring cylinder then fill with DCM. Add the cyanide/bicarbonate until H2SO4 is neutralised (does HCN act on bicarbonate?). Decant and add 1% EtOH. Then bubble Cl2, and evaporate to dryness.

Well thats at least what I'd try, but I'm unlikely to be trying anything thats why I'm saying it and not doing it

I've just tried to simplify it as much as possible without considering yields. No point doing 5 times the work for two times the yield. But does anyone see a problem with is?

I have Merck cyanuric trichloride as well, but buying it is seldom the point, I have never done anything with it though.

[Edited on 31-5-2008 by Axt]

Sauron - 31-5-2008 at 03:55

Be aware that CC (TCT) is said to have a limited shelf life. Best used fresh.

I have maybe 5 Kg never opened and may discover it will all have to be replaced.

pdb - 31-5-2008 at 06:02

Sauron, by "commercial grade", I just meant it was commercially available (i.e. not home-made). Should have said "reagent grade" to avoid confusion. I don't have it right here, but I think it was 250g from Acros.

I didn't go far in my trials of cast detonators, as the many quotes of spontaneous explosion in the literarure have somewhat chilled my enthusiasm...

franklyn - 28-8-2008 at 13:00

Patent for
Tris (5-amino tetrazolo) triazine
US - 20080169051
http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat20080169051.pdf

Patent for
Tris tetrazolyl trazine
WO - 2008060366
http://v3.espacenet.com/captcha?original_requestUrl=http%3A%...

Synthesis of Carbon Nitride ( C3N4 )
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA359222
Analog of Silicon Nitride theoretically deemed harder than diamond
this what happens when there are only C - N bonds

Evaluation of Cyanuric Triazide compound detonator
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2006fuze/mehta.pdf

How much is really known about the structure of Cyanuric triazide ?
From vol 6 of Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III
Posted by kmno4 here _
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=7208&a...
seen here below is an observation I found in subpart 6.07 Tetrazoles page 299
can this be analogous to the isomerism of Benzotrifuroxan I spoke of here
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=2969&a...

CTA TZT.JPG - 57kB

Engager - 20-3-2009 at 03:46

Quote:

Originally posted by Sauron
I posted procedures to prepare TCT (cyanuric chloride, trichloro-s-triazine) by two methods:

1. From cyanogen chloride trimerization. Very hazardous procedure!

2. By chlorination of methyl thiocyanate. The product of the chlorination is a mixture from which TCT precipitates. The TCT is filtered off and purified. The filtrate is obnoxious and toxic, containing trichloromethyl sulfenyl chloride, thiophosgene, etc. Exhaustive chlorination of the mixture ends with carbon tetrachloride.

The second route is much safer than the first, but still needs doing in a hood.

Methyl thiocyanate can be purchased or prepared, its preparation starts with carbon disulfide. This has also been covered in my previous posts, q.v.

I am very curoious as to pdb's "commercial grade" of cyanuric chloride. What brand, what packaging, and where did you get it?

I have Merck and Acros reagent grades. Commercial grades such as made by Italy's Lonza, usually come only in 20 Kg fiber drums.

It is best to be very specific because there has been a great deal of confusion on this forum between CC (TCT) and TCCA which is a common swimming pool chlorinator. Related but not interchangeable.

I've also found information that cyanuric chloride can be prepared from potassium thiocyanate and chlorine, watch picture below. However i was unable to locate synth procedure for this method, may be you can find it?

ctc.jpg - 192kB

Sauron - 20-3-2009 at 08:44

This should be no surprise since cyanuric chloride os also produced by chlorinating methyl thiocyanate, and again SCl2 is a byproduct. KSCN is a lot cheaper than MeSCN.

Therefore the main problem will be figuring out how to isolate and purify the cyanuric chloride (better known around this forum as CC or TCT and not to be confused with TCCA.

Beilstein will be the place to look for the Liebig citation. I would bet the paper appeared in Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie, but maybe not.

Papers that old are sometimes skimpy on experimental details, and anyway you can count on it being in archaic chemical German. Do you reaqd German?

Engager - 20-3-2009 at 08:51

No, but i understand some words. I can use software translator with text obtained by recognition in finereader programm.

[Edited on 20-3-2009 by Engager]

garage chemist - 20-3-2009 at 10:16

I can translate german articles if you ask me via U2U.
Especially if it's something as interesting as synthesis of TCT without HCN (not that HCN would be a problem for me, in fact, I would have to buy some thiocyanate if I wanted to do the KSCN method, whereas I have plenty of ferrocyanide to generate HCN with).
But time and especially motivation is the limiting factor for me.

Sauron - 20-3-2009 at 10:53

Take up garage chemist's offer, I have experience with machine translation of OCR and it varies from bad to awful depending on the image quality of the pdf from which the ocr was done.

A German chemist doing the translation cannot be improved upon.

Apart from looking in the Haupywerk (Beilstein) you can look in PATR 2700, and the three volume "s-Triazine and Derivatives" and these have been made available on the forum before.

I am sure that gc knows already but engager, I hope you have a fume hood because chlorination of KSCN will form ClCN in situ and that is what trimerizes to the TCT - just as in the prep from MeSCN

So there is certainly the potential for release of cyanogen chloride, which is a military class chemical weapon (although an obsolete one) possesing the blood-agent effects of HCN combined with the insidious pulmonary effects of phosgene - delayed edema without immediate warning irritation. Be aware and take appropriate precautions.

The only method of preparing TCT that does not present this hazard is chlorination of cyanuric acid but the reagent for this is PCl5 and I am unaware of any other. Thionyl chloride does not work. I think SbCl5 would work but do not know.

[Edited on 21-3-2009 by Sauron]

Formatik - 20-3-2009 at 13:52

The ref is actually Liebig in Pogg. Ann. 34, pg. 604-5, which can be found here. The procedure is also in the 7.Auf. of Gmelin under KSCN, who mistake KSCN for KCN. The reason the method never gained popularity likely is because 4-5% of the used KSCN yields the cyanuric chloride. Machine translations suck, I can translate it a bit later.

[Edited on 20-3-2009 by Formatik]

Sauron - 20-3-2009 at 23:06

So the yield is trivial and the purification problematic. Oh joy.

These problems do not apply to the James procedure for chlorination of MeSCN. High yield, and the cyanuric chloride crystallizes out of the mixture and is simply filtered off and recrystallized. My recollection is that from 100 g MeSCN 65-70 TCT are obtained. When the chlorination no longer throws TCT, continue chlorination till onloy CCl4 and sulfur chlorides remain, then work that up in usual way (see my recent post on CCl4 from CS2) to obtain max. CCl4.

So use the KSCN to prepare MeSCN (I also posted this before.)

Kn the interest of finding a practical prep of TCT that does not involve such toxic reagents or intermediates, let's reexamine the chlorination of CA

(NC-OH)3 + 3 PCl5 -> 3 POCl3 + 3 HCl + (CNCl)3
129 g 615 g 453 g 108 g 183 g

Just as in the case of oxalic acid it seems a great way to make POCl3 and a middling way to make trhe TCT.

However, the situation is just as bad with SbCl5. The difference is the latter is more available. If it works, which seems likely.

Here is the James paper from J.Che.Soc.

Remember TCT is the first product formed, and is solid and insoluble so ppts out.

You do not need to be concerned with the details of the rest of the intermediates, just continue chloribating after no more TCT drops out, and you will eventually have only CCl4 and sulfur chlorides. James gives the overall stoichiomeyrt.

3 CH3SCN + 11 Cl2 -> Cl3(CN)3 + 2 CSCl4 + CSCl2 + 9 HCl

but a further mol Cl2 converts the thiophosgene to CSCl4

CSCl2 + Cl2 -> CSCl4

and 3 more mols Cl2 convert the three mols of trichloromethyl sulfenyl chloride to CCl4 and SCl2

3 CSCl4 + 3 Cl2 -> 3 CCl4 + 3 SCl2

So that the overall reaction for the perchlorination is

3 CH3SCN + 15 Cl2 -> Cl3(CN)3 + 3 CCl4 + 3 SCl2 + 9 HCl

Treating the CCl4/SCl2 mixture with CS2 gets more CCl4 and precipitates elemental sulfur. See my posts on prep of CCl4.

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Engager - 3-7-2009 at 14:47

I'm finaly obtained some cyanuric chloride, to make some cyanuric triazide. What is sensitivity of cyanuric triazide? Is it safe to handle it in common manner (e.g. use vacuum filtering)? What exactly is sensitivity of this compound, especialy sensitivity to friction? Books state that compound may be excessively sensitive to friction, and can explode from slightest stimulus then crystalls are large. How to ensure to precipitate very fine crystalls and to handle it safely?

[Edited on 3-7-2009 by Engager]

The_Davster - 3-7-2009 at 16:18

Engager: Sensitivities of it were mentioned in this PDF. (http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2006fuze/mehta.pdf)
It seems to be around lead azide, nice to see that it is of lower ESD sensitivity though.

I have also heard some bad things about its sensitivity in the molten state, namely, very high.

[Edited on 4-7-09 by The_Davster]

Engager - 4-7-2009 at 02:04

Document shows general sensitivity, but does not describe conditions of production or crystall size of cyanuric triazide, but sensitivity clearly very dependent from it. "Large" crystalls said to explode on touch and friction by rubber rod. Such sensitivity is absolutely unacceptable, what's why i'm looking for method to produce small crystalls, witch can be handled in relatively safe manner. Does someone have any idea what is reference from witch prep posted by pdb was taken? Where i can get safe synth procedure for CTA in form of very small crystalls, witch are much less sensitive?

[Edited on 4-7-2009 by Engager]

PHILOU Zrealone - 14-7-2009 at 13:07

Engager,
Here some info on friction..

Out of Explosives (Josef Köhler and Rudolf Meyer, 4th revised and extended edition):
p 70:
"Cyanuric triazide:
(-N=C(N3)-)3
colorless crystals
empirical formula: C3N12
molecular weight: 204,1
energy of formation: +1088 kcal/kg = + 4551 kJ/kg
enthalpy of formation: + 1071 kcal/kg = + 4481 kJ/kg
oxygen balance: -47%
nitrogen content: 82,36% N
melting point (under decomposition): 94°C = 201°F
lead block test: 415 cm³/10g
detonation velocity unconfined: 5500 m/s (at d= 1,02 g/cm³) (*)
deflagration point (explosion): 200-205°C = 390-400°F
friction sensitivity: 0,01 kp = 0,1 N pistil load "(**)

(*)Note that the density can be higher and that 5500 m/s is listed as unconfined, what would imply that the VOD can be very much higher, because VOD is density and confinement dependant
(**) pistil load charged with roughly 10 grams!!! thus very friction sensitive