Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
HMX also called octogen is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive chemically related to RDX. Like RDX the compound’s name is the subject of much speculation having been variously listed as High Melting eXplosive Her Majesty’s eXplosive High-velocity Military eXplosive or High-Molecular-weight rdX.The molecular structure of HMX consists of an eight-membered ring of alternating carbon and nitrogen atoms with a nitro group attached to each nitrogen atom.
