_American._
Aetna Coal-mine Powder A, B, C: nitroglycerine explosive.
Black Diamond: 2A, 3A, 6L.F are nitroglycerine explosives; 5, 7, 8,
ammonium nitrate explosives.
Carbonite: nitroglycerine 26, barium nitrate 4, potassium nitrate 29,
wood-meal or starch flour 40, calcium carbonate 0.25.
Du Pont Permissible: nitroglycerine, ammonium nitrate, common salt.
Eureka: nitroglycerine and hydrated salt.
Monobel: ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerine, wood-meal, alkali chloride.
Red H1-7: ammonium nitrate explosives.
Trogan Coal Powder: contains nitrostarch.
_Austrian and Hungarian_.
Chloratit: during war was used in coal-mines.
Dynammon: ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, red charcoal.
Pannomite: nitroglycerine, collodion cotton, ammonium nitrate, dextrin,
glycerine, nitrotoluene, alkali chloride.
Titanite: Ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, curcuma charcoal.
_Belgian_.
Alsilite: ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, ferrosilicon-aluminium,
salt.
Baellnite: ammonium-nitrate, trinitrotoluene.
Densite: alkaline nitrates, trinitrotoluene, dinitrotoluene, and
ammonium chloride.
Favier Explosives: mixtures in varying proportions containing ammonium
nitrate, nitronaphthalene, paraffin, and resin; higher nitrated
naphthalenes, potassium nitrate, and tetryl may be present.
Manufactured by the French Government as Explosifs N or Favier or
Grisounites. Grisounites-couche for coal-mines have theoretical
explosion temperatures of 1500deg C., Grisounites-roche of 1900deg C.
Ammonite, Westfalite, Bellite, Roburite are explosives of this type;
other ammonites, Bellite Nos. 2 and 4, Faversham powder, and negro
powder have ammonium or sodium chloride added.
_British._
Ammonite: Favier type; ammonium nitrate 75, dinitronaphthalene or other
nitro-body, salt 20.
Bellite: ammonium nitrate and metadinitrobenzene; salt and starch may
be added.
Bobbinite: the only gunpowder explosive allowed in England, not allowed
in foreign mines; alkali nitrate, carbohydrates, wax may be added.
Shatters coal less than high explosives.
Cambrite: a Nobel carbonite plus 8 per cent of a cooling agent.
Denaby Powder: ammonium nitrate, alkali nitrate, T.N.T., ammonium
chloride.
Dynobel: nitroglycerine 15, collodion cotton 0.5, nitro-body 3,
ammonium nitrate 46, wood-meal 5.5, salt 29.5, magnesium carbonate 0.5.
Limit charge, 18 to 30 ounces. Swing of ballistic pendulum, 2.35
inches.
Monarkite: ammonium and sodium nitrate, nitroglycerine, nitrocotton,
starch, mineral jelly, salt.
Monobel: ammonium nitrate, nitroglycerine, wood-meal, salt, alkali
chloride, magnesium carbonate; nitro-body may be present.
Negro Powder: Grisounite type; ammonium nitrate 88, T.N.T. 10, graphite
2.
Rex Powder: nitroglycerine 12, salt 20, wood-meal 8, ammonium nitrate
60. Charge, 20 ounces. Swing of pendulum, 2.61 inches.
Rippite (Super): nitroglycerine, nitrocotton, potassium nitrate, borax,
alkali chloride.
Roburite: ammonium nitrate 61, T.N.T. 16, salt 23.
Stomonal: nitroglycerine, ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate, wood-meal,
wheat-flour, salt, ammonium oxalate.
Thames Powder. Similar to above.
_Danish._
Aerolite: ammonium nitrate 78.1 per cent, potassium nitrate 7.5 per
cent, sulphur 8.75 per cent, tar 2.5 per cent, sago-meal 1.25 per cent,
manganese dioxide 1.25 per cent, resin 0.6 per cent.
Poudre Blanche Cornil: ammonium nitrate, alkali nitrate,
nitronaphthalene, lead chromate.
_French._
Favier Explosives. See under _Belgian_ explosives.
Grisounite. As above.
Grisoutine or Grisou Dynamite. It is a mixture of ammonium nitrate and
blasting gelatine. It is the only explosive except Grisounite allowed
in the more dangerous French mines.
Naphthalite (Grisou): potassium chlorate 80 per cent, aryl
hydrocarbons, 12 per cent nitrocompounds not trinitro-bodies, paraffin,
fatty oils, flour and other organic substances. May contain alkali
chlorides and up to 4 per cent blasting gelatine.
_German._
Albit (Wetter): a chlorate explosive replacing nitrates; scarce during
the war.
Astralit (Wetter): ammonium nitrate explosive containing some blasting
gelatine. Many varieties, which may also contain rape-oil and
potato-meal. Has been used in trench howitzers.
Carbonit. Numerous compositions come under this name and are made in
different countries. Consists chiefly of nitroglycerine and metallic
nitrates. Arctic carbonite, a low-freezing mixture, contains 15.5 per
cent nitroglycerine, 10.5 per cent nitrohydrocarbon, 42 per cent
potassium nitrate, 31.7 per cent wood-meal, and 0.3 per cent calcium
carbonate.
Chloratzit: potassium chlorate or perchlorate, aryl nitro-bodies,
resins, and carbohydrates. For coal-mines add cooling agents.
Detonit: ammonium nitrate, charcoal, meal, 4 per cent blasting
gelatine, neutral salts.
Donarit: ammonium nitrate 80 per cent, trinitrotoluene 12 per cent,
rye-flour 4 per cent, nitroglycerine 4 per cent. The standard in
Germany for sensitiveness of ammonium nitrate explosives.
Dorfit: ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, flour, salt, alkali nitrate.
Dynamit: nitroglycerine 75 per cent, Kieselguhr 25 per cent.
Gehlingerit: ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, flour.
Permonit: a perchlorate explosive.
Tremonit: contains gelatinized dinitroglycerine, pea-flour, and salt.