page_title: Tritonal
hierarchical_section_title: Tritonal
caption_attribution_description: English: RAF Bomber Command 'Happy Xmas Adolf' - ground staff 'bombing up' Mosquito Mk XVI MM199 of No. 128 Squadron, No. 8 (PFF) Group, at Wyton with a 4,000 lb 'Cookie'. This aircraft was shot down by flak and crashed near the village of Benthe while on an operation to Hanover on the night of 4/5 February 1945. Lt Lt J K Wood and Fg Off R Poole were both killed.
context_page_description: Tritonal is a mixture of 80% TNT and 20% aluminium powder, used in several types of ordnance such as air-dropped bombs. The aluminium improves the total heat output and hence impulse of the TNT — the length of time during which the blast wave is positive. Tritonal is approximately 18% more powerful than TNT alone.
  The 87 kg of tritonal in a Mark 82 bomb has the potential to produce approximately 863 MJ of energy when detonated. This implies an energy density of approximately 9MJ/kg, compared to ~4MJ/kg for TNT.
context_section_description: Tritonal is a mixture of 80% TNT and 20% aluminium powder, used in several types of ordnance such as air-dropped bombs. The aluminium improves the total heat output and hence impulse of the TNT — the length of time during which the blast wave is positive. Tritonal is approximately 18% more powerful than TNT alone.
  The 87 kg of tritonal in a Mark 82 bomb has the potential to produce approximately 863 MJ of energy when detonated. This implies an energy density of approximately 9MJ/kg, compared to ~4MJ/kg for TNT.
caption: A 4,000 lb blockbuster bomb being loaded onto a De Havilland Mosquito of the RAF, circa 1944. The explosive filling of Tritonal 80/20 is clearly stencilled on the side, inside the chalked "O" of Adolf
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