TNT

Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (singlehorzbondNO₂) groups to toluene. Because TNT melts below the boiling point of water but explodes only above 464 °F (240 °C), it can safely be melted and poured into casings. It is relatively insensitive to shock and, for practical purposes, cannot be exploded without a detonator, making it the preferred chemical explosive, used in munitions and for demolition.

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• Trinitrotoluene, the chemical explosive usually known as TNT or Trotyl
• Turner Network Television, cable television network
• Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island republic in the Caribbean

Arts

• TNT (comics), an obscure 1940s superhero
• Tamers of Nonhuman Threats, a Donald Duck comics series
• Tuesday Night Titans a 1980s-era World Wrestling Federation TV show
• TNT, the stage name of professional wrestler Greg Bownds
• T.N.T., a film by Robert Radler starring Olivier Gruner

Music

• T.N.T. (album), a 1975 album by AC/DC
• T.N.T. (song), a song by AC/DC
• TNT (Tanya Tucker album), a 1978 album by Tanya Tucker
• TNT (album), a 1998 album by Tortoise
• TNT (band), a Norwegian hard rock band
• TNT (TNT album), their debut album

Companies

• TNT (clothing), an Israeli clothing company
• TNT N.V., a Dutch international transport and logistics corporation, and its divisions
• TNT Logistics, formerly the Australian business Thomas Nationwide Transport
• TNT Air Cargo, in Papua New Guinea
• TNT Airways, in Belgium
• TNT-9, a television station in Launceston, Australia
• Télévision Numérique Terrestre, a French digital terrestrial television service
• Talk 'N Text Phone Pals, a Philippine basketball team

Computing

• TNT (instant messenger), an open source alternative to the AOL Instant Messenger for Emacs, using the TOC2 Protocol
• RIVA TNT, a computer graphics chipset by nVidia
• "Template Numerical Toolkit", a C++ software library
• "The NeWS Toolkit", an early Unix GUI library

Other

• TNT (cocktail), a cocktail of tequila and Tabasco sauce
• TNT (magazine), a backpackers magazine
• TNT Fireworks, a distributor of consumer fireworks
• Transsexual News Telegraph, a magazine
• Typographical Number Theory, a formal axiomatic basis for number theory in mathematics