Shellite (explosive)

British, 12 inch shells displayed at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre (2008). On the right is a Mk 6A Capped Common pointed shell, (formerly) filled with Shellite 70/30

Shellite (known as Tridite in US service[1]) is an explosive mixture of picric acid and dinitrophenol or picric acid and hexanitrodiphenylamine in a ratio of 70/30. It was typically used as a filling in Royal Navy armour-piercing shells during the early part of the 20th century.

  1. ^ Meyer et al, p.417