SOME MISCELLANEOUS EXPLOSIVES

Anilite: Sprengel type. French liquid explosive used in aerial bombs.

Centralite: not an explosive but a stabilizer and regulator. It is

dimethyldiphenylurea.

Collodion Cotton: low nitralion nitrocotton, soluble in a mixture of

ether and alcohol. It dissolves in nitroglycerine and liquid

nitro-body, preventing their exudation.

Gelatine Dynamite: a mixture of blasting gelatine with potassium

nitrate and wood-meal. It may also contain calcium and magnesium

carbonate and mineral jelly.

Gelignite is similar to Gelatine Dynamite, but contains less Blasting

Gelatine.

Halakite: contains potassium chlorate, ammonium nitrate,

trinitrotoluene or other nitro-body; may contain nitrocotton, sodium

nitrate, and wood-meal.

Pyrocollodion: highly nitrated, soluble gun-cotton. Adopted by the

United States.

White Gunpowder: a mixture of potassium chlorate, potassium

ferrocyanide, and sugar. Very sensitve, and only used in the

laboratory.

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