In 1900 Bielefeldt found that a fulminate placed on top of an aromatic nitro compound, such as trinitrotoluene, formed a useful detonator; this discovery has been especially taken advantage of in Germany, in which country detonators of this nature are being largely employed. [Please select]
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It was a simple little blue telegram, but it might have been nitro-glycerin on a tear for the way it acted. [Please select]
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If he had dropped a can of nitro-glycerin under the table, the effect couldn't have been more startling. [Please select]
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After the first kodak, there came others filled with rolls of sensitized nitro-cellulose film. [Please select]
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Phosphorus 120 degrees Fahrenheit Bi-sulphide of carbon 300 " " Gun-cotton 430 " " Nitro-glycerine 490 " " Phosphorus, amorphous 500 " " Rifle powder 550 " " Charcoal 660 " " Dry pine wood 800 " " Oak 900 " " POWER AND HEAT EQUIVALENTS. [Please select]
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An explosive composed of an absorbent, like earth, combined with nitro-glycerine. [Please select]
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He is an accumulation of tremendous energy in small compass, a sort of embodied nitro-glycerine, but dangerous only to his enemies. [Please select]
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After becoming acquainted with gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, lithofracteur, and other combinations of powerfully-explosive agents, I took to searching for and inventing methods by which these might be utilised. [Please select]
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If I had capital--enough--I think I'd start in making bulk and dense powders--all sorts; gun-cotton, nitro-powders--" "You mean you'd like to go on with your own invention--Chaosite. [Please select]
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