This standard refers to the symmetrical cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine C3H6O6N6, used as a breaker explosive and the main component of detonating cords, fuzes, multipliers and primers. It is also used in the production of plastic or moldable and adherent explosives, in which it enters, as the main component, along with other substances that provide these qualities. For loading grenades, aviation bombs and underwater mines, it is used in binary or ternary mixtures, with tetralite, trilithon, pentrite and other aromatic nitrated derivatives.