Nitrotriazolone
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Nitrotriazolone (NTO), an explosive, is commercially available and used in automobile airbags as an alternative to lead azide. It is also being studied in military applications, as a component of insensitive high explosives, comparable in performance to RDX but more stable and less subject to accidental detonation. It is also an alternative to Composition B.
Chemically, it is 3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one.
It can be melt-poured, or formulated as a plastic bonded explosive.