On 26 May 2018 at 21:03, Thomas Jones-Low <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/26/2018 3:48 PM, Timothy Collinson wrote:

I needed to name some TL4 explosives (on Pysadi, harvesting howood) and
came up with quadroglycerine - it was supposed to be a sort of homage to
triticale being turned into quadrotriticale for Star Trek's Trouble With
Tribbles episode. But is the nature of glycerine such that that's just
completely ridiculous?

Welll, there is Nitroglycerin aka trinitroglycerine, and Trinitrotoluene (aka TNT). Glycerine doesn't have the attachment for additional nitrogen groups.

TNT on the other hand. In theory, since the core of toluene is a benzene ring, you can attach up to 6 NO2 groups. Of course these are unstable, and adding more makes the explosive more powerful. So QNT would be really scary stuff.

Well, that would make Lily's day - she rather likes her explosives - although I've noted David's response as to it being rather odd.

David wrote:

>However, once you start invoking the marketing department, all bets are off and you could call it literally anything you want.

Yes, I did think that. But unless I'm aiming to do that deliberately, it's probably better not to stretch belief for those who would know. Also, my vision of Pysadi doesn't really have 'marketing' as a feature. And I have to remember that it's TL4.

I'll cast around for something else.

Many thanks. I knew people would know the technicalities of it.

cheers