Ammonium nitrate 77·6
Dinitro-naphthalene 2·4
Ammonium chloride 20
Charge limite More than 293 grammes.
=FAVORIT.= See =KORONIT.=
=*FELIXITE= is a smokeless shot-gun powder introduced in 1906
by the New Explosives Company. It is a fibrous 42-grain bulk powder,
and, according to an analysis published in “Arms and Explosives,”
1917, p. 76, has the composition--
Nitrocellulose, insoluble 40·5
” soluble 20·5
Metallic nitrates 30·0
Nitro-compound 5·0
Vaseline 2·7
Moisture 1·3
=*FILITE= was a smokeless powder formerly used in the Italian
services. It was a Ballistite consisting generally of equal parts of
nitroglycerine and collodion cotton, to which 0·5 to 1 per cent. of
aniline or diphenylamine was added as a stabiliser. It was
gelatinised with a solvent and drawn out into cords.
=FLAMMIVORE.=--A Belgian coal-mine explosive made
at Arendonck--
O.
Ammonium nitrate 70
Barium nitrate 15
Cellulose 5
Dinitro-toluene 10
Charge limite 100g.
I.
Blasting gelatine 4
Ammonium nitrate 82
Potassium nitrate 10
Rye flour 4
Charge limite 500g.
III.
Nitroglycerine 6
Ammonium nitrate 70
Ammonium sulphate 9
Barium sulphate 7
Dextrin 8
Charge limite 650g.
In the United Kingdom this is “authorised” but not “permitted” for
use in dangerous mines.
=FLOBERT= ammunition consists of small cartridges, like
detonators, charged with a small quantity of mercury fulminate, and
some antimony sulphide and potassium chlorate. It is used for target
practice and shooting small birds.
=FOERDER SICHERHEITSSPRENGSTOFF.=--A German coal-mine explosive
containing ammonium nitrate, not more than 4 per cent. of blasting
gelatine, mono- and di-nitro-aromatic compounds, vegetable meal and
neutral salts.
=FOERDIT.=--A German coal-mine explosive containing
nitroglycerine gelatinised or ungelatinised, carbohydrates,
glycerine, nitro-compounds, inorganic nitrates and sodium or
potassium chloride.
Ammon-Foerdit is a similar mixture, except that it contains a larger
percentage of ammonium nitrate and no other inorganic nitrates. The
nitroglycerine is gelatinised, and there is a little diphenylamine.
The following are examples of these two explosives--
Foerdit. Ammon-Foerdit.
Nitroglycerine 25·5 3·8
Collodion cotton 1·5 0·2
Ammonium nitrate 37 85
Nitro-toluene 5 --
Dextrine or flour 4 4
Glycerine 3 2
Diphenylamine -- 1
Potassium chloride 24 4
Ammon-Foerdit F, which has been introduced recently, contains up to
10 per cent. of potassium perchlorate and is similar to Astralit V.
=FORCITE.=--A variety of gelatine dynamite or gelignite made in
Belgium. It contains blasting gelatine 36 to 64 per cent., sodium or
ammonium nitrate, wood meal, magnesia and sometimes bran.
An American explosive of the same name is a dynamite containing wood
tar--
Nitroglycerine 49
Collodion cotton 1
Sodium nitrate 38
Sulphur 1·5
Wood tar 10
Wood pulp 0·5
=FORCITE ANTIGRISOUTEUSE 3.=--A Belgian coal-mine
explosive of the Carbonite type--
Nitroglycerine 26
Potassium nitrate 33
Barium nitrate 1
Rye flour 38·5
Bran 1
Sodium carbonate 0·5
Charge limite 750g.
=FORTEX.=--A coal-mine explosive made by Explosives and Chemical
Products, Ltd. The mixture, which was on the old Permitted List, was--
Ammonium nitrate 78·5
Tetryl 21·5
=NEW FORTEX.=--A modification of the above to pass
the Rotherham Test--
_Date of Permit_ 25-11-13
Ammonium nitrate 35
Potassium nitrate 33
Tetryl 12
Ammonium chloride 20
Limit charge 10 oz.
Power (swing of ballistic pendulum) 2·61”
=FORT PITT MINE POWDER NO.= 1 is an American coal-mine powder on
the Permissible List. It is a nitroglycerine explosive.
=FRACTORITE.=--A Belgian coal-mine explosive--