The compound was detected and described in 2010 by researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden.

[1] It is made of a nitrogen atom bonded to three nitro groups (−NO2).

[need quotation to verify] Theoretical calculations by Montgomery and Michels in 1993 showed that the compound was likely to be stable.

[1] Trinitramide has a potential use as one of the most efficient and least polluting of rocket propellant oxidizers, as it is chlorine-free.

[3] This is potentially an important development, because the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation implies that even small improvements in specific impulse yields a similar change in delta-v, which can make large improvements in the size of practical rocket launch payloads.