Lead styphnate

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Lead styphnate [r]: Also called trinitroresorcinol, a primary explosive, introduced in 1914, with relatively poor detonating qualities, generally replaced by lead azide; sometimes used for commercial explosives and as an igniter for lead azide [e]

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