Nitro-Explosive: A Practical Treatise

Introducing an amazing handbook which comprises of comprehensive information on properties, manufacture and analysis of nitrate substances, including the fulminates, smokeless powders and celluloid.

The manufacture of the various nitro-explosives has made great advances during late years, and the various forms of nitro-compounds are gradually replacing the older forms of explosives, both for blasting purposes and also for propulsive agents, under the form of smokeless powders.

The nitro-explosives belong to the so-called High Explosives and may be defined as any chemical compound possessed of explosive properties, or capable of combining with metals to form an explosive compound, which is produced by the chemical action of nitric acid, either alone or mixed with sulphuric acid, upon any carbonaceous substance, whether such compound is mechanically mixed with other substances or not

There are a lot of substances that have been nitrated but some of these are not made upon the large scale, others are but little used. Those of most importance are nitro – glycerine and nitro – cellulose.

One of the most powerful of modern explosive agents is nitro-glycerine. It is the explosive contained in dynamite, and forms the greater part of the various forms of blasting gelatins.

Nitroglycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.

The contents are arranged under following detailed chapters:

CHAPTER I – Introduction
CHAPTER II – Nitro-Glycerine
CHAPTER III. -Nitro-Cellulose,
CHAPTER IV – Dynamite
CHAPTER V – Nitro-Benzol, Roburite, Bellite, Picric Acid, The Fulminates
CHAPTER VI – Smokeless Powders in General.
CHAPTER VII – Analysis of Explosives.
CHAPTER VIII – Firing Point Of Explosives, Heat Tests, &C
CHAPTER IX – The Determination of The Relative Strength Of Explosives.
Index

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