Phlegmatized explosive

Phlegmatizing usually improves the handling properties of an explosive (e.g. when munitions are filled in factories.)

Other typical phlegmatizing agents include paraffin wax (5% used in OKFOL and Composition H6), paper, or even water (used in water gel explosives).

Such agents are nearly always flammable themselves (therefore adding fuel to the blast) or will at least boil off easily.

Composition B, which has 1% paraffin wax added, or the Russian RGO hand grenade which contains 90 grams of "A-IX-1" explosive, comprising 96% RDX and 4% paraffin wax by weight.

Another example of use is the VS-50 antipersonnel mine, which contains an explosive filling of 43 grams of RDX, again phlegmatized by combining it with 10% paraffin wax by weight.