Description
Urotropin. hexamine
Name: Urotropin
Synonyms: hexamine, HMTA, formamine, hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA), metenamine
Genre: Clean
Cleanliness: clean
Chemical formula: C6H12N4
Urotropin (hexamethylenetetramine, HMTA) is an organic chemical compound. It is a polycyclic tertiary amine.
Application
– in the form of tablets – tourist fuel for heating food under field conditions (similar to trioxane),
– in the plastics industry – a substrate for the production of phenol-formaldehyde resins (bakelite),
– an intermediate for the preparation of explosives (peroxide urotropin) and crumb explosives (hexogen, octogen),
– as a digestion inhibitor in acid pickling and cleaning baths,
– preservative.
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