Chapter 8

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--Liquefaction and Exudation Tests-- Page's Regulator for Heat Test Apparatus--Specific Gravities of Explosives--Will's Test for Nitro-Cellulose--Table of Temperature of Detonation, Sensitiveness, &c.