TNT is rather insensitive for an explosive. You need primers or high energies to set it off, you can melt it and it won't explode. In fact it's so insensitive t

TNT is rather insensitive for an explosive. You need primers or high energies to set it off, you can melt it and it won't explode. In fact it's so insensitive that for decades people didn't realized it's an explosive and used it as a dye. And even after they did - it was exempt from most safety rules. Shock sensitivity Insensitive Friction sensitivity Insensitive to 353 N https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT#Explosive_character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT#Explosive_character Anegdoticaly - my grandpa told stories that after WW2 he and other kids found a lot of munitions in the forest and played with them. And TNT was so safe they used it as a fuel in stoves and it would just burn without exploding (and for quite a long time). Not sure how true it is, maybe it was a different material they just called TNT.