Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry
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It was superseded by a powder of the ballistite type, but has been reintroduced recently by the Germans to replace a part of the charge of nitrocellulose powder in their field g...
5. Part 5=JUDSON POWDER.=--A mild blasting explosive used in America. It is a sort of crude gunpowder coated with nitroglycerine to increase the violence of the explosion. The percentage...
6. Part 6=*NITROKOL.=--A gelatinised nitrocellulose powder intended for use in rifles. It consists of a nitrocellulose, mostly soluble in ether-alcohol, and gelatinised with that solvent...
4. Part 4=FAVIER= explosives consist essentially of ammonium nitrate mixed with nitro-compounds. Favier took out patents in 1884 and 1885 for mixtures of ammonium nitrate with mononitro-...
3. Part 3=CLYDITE= was a coal-mine explosive formerly made by Nobels at Ardeer. It was similar to Nobel Carbonite, but the potassium nitrate was replaced by the barium salt, and it might...
7. Part 7=*ROTTWEIL SMOKELESS POWDERS.=--These were pushed energetically in England in 1913. They comprised a gelatinised rifle powder, and a 37-grain gelatinised dense shot-gun powder....
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8. Part 8=TUNNELIT= is a German safety explosive containing ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate, not more than 10 per cent. of trinitro-toluene (or not more than 6 per cent. together with n...
9. Part 9Nitrate, Sodium. Aetna Powder. Alkalsit. Amasite. Ammonite. Anchorite. Antigel. Astralit. Blastine. Bomlit. Britonite. C. Cahuecit. Cornil. Cosilit. Cugnite. Dahmenit. Densite....