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>That was because soldiers were cutting little cubes off the explosive and using it to start cook fires
A quite old tradition, metal detecting fanatics in Europe claim a lot found shit was cracked open supposedly for this very reason
>addition to being an explosive RDX is a pretty potent neurotoxin
It also fucks your kidneys pretty bad, it was even used as rat poison at one point
Its toxicity is one the reasons a replacement was searched for, and a pretty interesting one, TKX-50, was found by Klapötke's group which is pretty well known in the business of energetic materials
It turned out that it not only outdoes heksogen and oktogen it's also less sensitive than them so, after a century, we might finally see a successor to RDX
>tfw another compound they tested required the replacing of the laser in the raman spectrometer with a weaker one because the stock one inevitably set it off