Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word HMX
HMX
Definitions of HMX
- An explosive, octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine, related to RDX.
- (military, US) Abbreviation of Marine Helicopter Squadron One.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using HMX in a Sentence
- Chemically, it is classified as a nitroamine alongside HMX, which is a more energetic explosive than TNT.
- HMX, also called octogen, is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive chemically related to RDX.
- HMX compositions with teflon-based binders were developed in 1960s and 1970s for gun shells and for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) seismic experiments,.
- In response to a special request for an explosive that could be smuggled through Japanese checkpoints by Chinese guerrillas, Kistakowsky mixed HMX, a non-toxic explosive produced as a by-product of the RDX process, with flour to create "Aunt Jemima", after a brand of pancake flour.
- Charles Duelfer, a member of the UNSCOM inspections team in Iraq, urges the destruction of these HMX, RDX, and PETN explosives.
- According to an NBC news crew embedded with the 101st, large stockpiles of conventional weapons were found on April 10, 2003, but not the 380 tons of HMX or RDX.
- DJ HMX, Komputer Kontroller, and Cosmonaut Zero were alias bands of Crooker used only for the videogames FreQuency and Amplitude.
- The name FOX-7 is derived from the acronym of the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), with the I replaced by an X to indicate an explosive, as in RDX and HMX.
- TNT explosive can itself be used to phlegmatize more sensitive explosives such as RDX (to form Cyclotol), HMX (to form Octol), or PETN (to form Pentolite).
- Other genes found in the otic vesicle across species that may play a role in patterning include Hmx, Fox, Dlx, and Gbx genes.
- Technology for removal of nitro bodies (HMX, RDX) from HMX plant effluents (based on neutralisation and alkaline hydrolysis).
- Talents de pianistes (HMX 2908192) Harmonia Mundi Records, with Alexandre Tharaud, Pascal Amoyel, Racha Arodaky, Frank Braley, Romain Hervé, Cédric Tiberghien, Ferenc Vizi, Hélène Couvert, Jérôme Ducros, Paul Lewis.
- 0 N; PETN – 60 N; RDX – 120 N; HMX – 120 N, show that NHN is not very sensitive, and is thereby not exceedingly hazardous in handling.
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