Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

Cellulose Properties--Discovery of Gun-Cotton--Properties of Gun-Cotton-- Varieties of Soluble and Insoluble Gun-Cottons--Manufacture of Gun-Cotton-- Dipping and Steeping--Whirl...

Kieselguhr Dynamite--Gelatine Compounds--Tonite--Cordite--Vaseline-- Acetone--Scheme for Analysis of Explosives--Nitro-Cotton--Solubility Test-- Non-Nitrated Cotton--Alkalinity-...

Explosives derived from Benzene--Toluene and Nitro-Benzene--Di- and Tri-nitro-Benzene--Roburite: Properties and Manufacture--Bellite: Properties, &c.--Securite--Tonite No. 3.--N...

~Properties of Nitro-Glycerine.~--Nitro-glycerol is a heavy oily liquid of specific gravity 1.6 at 15° C., and when quite pure is colourless. The commercial product is a pale st...

The progress made in recent years in the manufacture of smokeless powders has been very great. With a few exceptions, nearly all these powders are nitro compounds, and chiefly c...

Horsley's Apparatus--Table of Firing points--The Government Heat-Test Apparatus for Dynamites--Nitro-Glycerine, Nitro-Cotton, and Smokeless Powders--Liquefaction and Exudation T...

Effectiveness of an Explosive--High and Low Explosives--Theoretical Efficiency--MM. Roux and Sarrau's Results--Abel and Noble's--Nobel's Ballistic Test--The Mortar, Pressure, or...

Kieselguhr Dynamite--Classification of Dynamites--Properties and Efficiency of Ordinary Dynamite--Other Forms of Dynamite--Gelatine and Gelatine Dynamites, Suitable Gun-Cotton f...

The manufacture of the various nitro-explosives has made great advances during late years, and the various forms of nitro-compounds are gradually replacing the older forms of ex...

Effectiveness of an Explosive--High and Low Explosives--Theoretical Efficiency--M.M. Roux and Sarrau's Results--Abel and Noble's--Nobel's Ballistic Test--The Mortar--Pressure or...

Kieselguhr Dynamite--Gelatine Compounds--Tonite--Cordite--Vaseline-- Acetone--Scheme for Analysis of Explosives--Nitro-Cotton--Solubility Test-- Non-Nitrated Cotton--Alkalinity-...

Cellulose Properties--Discovery of Gun-Cotton--Properties of Gun-Cotton-- Varieties of Soluble and Insoluble Gun-Cottons--Manufacture of Gun-Cotton-- Dipping and Steeping—Whirli...

Explosives derived from Benzene--Toluene and Nitro-Benzene--Di- and Tri-nitro-Benzene--Roburite: Properties and Manufacture--Bellite: Properties, &c.--Securite--Tonite No. 3.--N...

Kieselguhr Dynamite--Classification of Dynamites--Properties and Efficiency of Ordinary Dynamite--Other forms of Dynamite--Gelatine and Gelatine Dynamites, Suitable Gun-Cotton f...

Horsley's Apparatus--Table of Firing Points--The Government Heat Test Apparatus, &c., for Dynamites, Nitro-Glycerine, Nitro-Cotton, and Smokeless Powders--Guttmann's Heat Test--...