cyclonite

But there was no use crying over spilt Cyclonite. '

If the gelignite set off the Cyclonite, it was going to take some Germans with it.

RDX, sometimes called cyclonite, is an explosive more powerful that TNT.

And never, ever, leave your Cyclonite and your detonators to be guarded by heroes of the Marne with the wind under their tails. '

The formaldehyde that Conrad had stolen was being used to make cyclonite, a highly explosive element, that only 5 little pieces of could blow the whole precinct up.

For security reasons, Britain termed Cyclonite as "Research Department Explosive" (R.D.X.).

One of them was packed with explosives: gelignite, and blocks of something that looked like butter, but was in fact Cyclonite in a plasticising medium - plastic explosive.

RDX is also known as Research Department Formula X, cyclonite, hexogen (particularly in German and German-influenced languages), and T4.

NLM Hazardous Substances Databank (US) - Cyclonite (RDX)

Major accomplishments of this period included better methods for storing smokeless powder, improved processing of cyclonite, more commonly called RDX, and the discovery of a new explosive, haleite.

It could be anything: C3, C4, Cyclonite, TNT, picric acid, gelignite, dynamite, Tetryl, Amatol, any one of a dozen sensitive chemicals.

Tenney L Davis, writing in the US in 1943, stated it was generally known in the US as cyclonite; the Germans called it Hexogen, the Italians T4.

As a post-doctoral fellow, Sheehan collaborated with Bachmann on the commercially feasible production of RDX also known as cyclonite, which turned out to give the Allies a huge advantage at sea during World War II.