How Is Amatol Used?

Amatol was used extensively during World War I and World War II, typically as an explosive in military weapons such as aircraft bombs, shells, depth charges, and naval mines. It was eventually replaced with alternative explosives such as Composition B

Composition B
Composition B, colloquially Comp B, is an explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. It is used as the main explosive filling in artillery projectiles, rockets, land mines, hand grenades and various other munitions. ... Most commonly it is described as 60/40 RDX/TNT with 1% wax added.
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Torpex
Torpex comprises 42% RDX, 40% TNT and 18% powdered aluminium. It was used in the Second World War from late 1942, at which time some used the names Torpex and RDX interchangeably, much to the confusion of today's historical researchers. The name is short for torpedo explosive.
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Who invented Amatol?

During World War I, a new explosive was invented by the British so that they could stretch their depleting supplies of TNT. This explosive was a mixture of TNT and another high explosive, and it was called Amatol. In 1917, the US entered the War.

How was TNT used in ww1?

Then came World War I. The Germans were the first to widely use TNT, filling their armor-piercing bombs with the new material. By World War II, TNT was standard in nearly all military explosives. ... To this day, most military weapons around the world use an RDX and TNT combination, called Comp B.

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