hexamine

With a view to diminishing these risks, hexamine, which is excreted into the cerebro-spinal fluid, is administered for its antiseptic properties in cases of head injury and before intra-cranial operations.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

One soldier said U.S. forces watched the looters' trucks loaded with bags marked "hexamine" — a key ingredient for HMX — being driven away from the facility.

Meanwhile, on "Explosives Gate" Mumon 2004

One soldier said U.S. forces watched the looters' trucks loaded with bags marked "hexamine" — a key ingredient for HMX — being driven away from the facility.

Archive 2004-11-01 Mumon 2004

I synthesized this stable, colorless solid by combining concentrated nitric acid with hexamine (the white crystalline product of the reaction between formaldehyde and ammonia).

December 15, 2012 2010

Some of the devices were gas cookers; others used hexamine solid fuel blocks.

An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008

Soldiers are issued with a hexamine stove See Above light weight and easy to use, as long as you can get the hexamine block to light in the wind, as used by British soldiers in the 1982 Falklands Islands War.

Brew Time Rogue Gunner 2007

Unsure what hexamine was, the troops later did an Internet search and learned of its explosive power.

Archive 2004-11-01 Mumon 2004

Unsure what hexamine was, the troops later did an Internet search and learned of its explosive power.

Meanwhile, on "Explosives Gate" Mumon 2004

In a large glass jar add 100ml peroxide and 3 teaspoons of crushed hexamine, stir until disolved and leave for 30min., now add 30ml of HCl stir and sit in fridge overnight.

The Makeshift Arsenal, by Lowry Version 1.2 1996

After the 20 minutes are up, pour this acid-hexamine mixture into 1000 ml. of finely crushed ice and water.

A Large Collection of Incendiary Information (Part II) 1990