Ammonium nitrate 92·5
Naphthalene 5·5
Potassium bichromate 2
Ordinary Dahmenite contains up to 15 per cent. of potassium nitrate
instead of bichromate, and has been used for blasting clay. Some
varieties contain curcuma meal and other constituents. The following
are some examples--
Gesteins-
Dahmenit. No. 76.
Ammonium nitrate 84·5 71·5
Potassium bichromate 2·5 0·5
Curcuma meal 12 6·25
Dinitro-benzene 1 --
Trinitro-toluene -- 12
Sodium chloride -- 9·75
Gelatine
Dahmenit.
Ammonium nitrate 82
Sodium nitrate 5·5
Potassium nitrate 2
Dinitro-glycerine 27·4
Nitrocotton 0·6
Naphthalene 0·5
Trinitro-toluene 4·5
Alkali chloride 27·5
Neu-Dahmenit.
B
Ammonium nitrate 68 65
Potassium nitrate 2 2
Vegetable meal 2·5 0·5
Coke 2 7
Trinitro-toluene 10 8
Alkali chloride 15·5 17·5
=DENABY POWDER.=--There was formerly a blasting explosive
of this name, consisting of a compressed mixture of Securite and
charcoal--
Potassium and barium nitrates 73·2
Dinitro-benzene 21·5
Nitrocotton and charcoal 5·1
Moisture 0·2
In 1914 a coal-mine explosive was introduced under the
same name and passed the Rotherham Test--
_Date of Permit_ 13-5-14
Ammonium nitrate 34
Potassium nitrate 33·5
Trinitro-toluene 13
Ammonium chloride 19·5
Limit charge 18 oz.
Power (swing of ballistic
pendulum) 2·74”
It is made by British Westfalite, Ltd.
=DENSITE.=--A Belgian blasting explosive containing one or more
of the following nitrates: ammonium, strontium, sodium, potassium;
also trinitro-toluene, and sometimes dinitro-toluene and ammonium
chloride. This explosive is practically the same as Nitralite.
Varieties have been made for use in coal mines.
See also Nitro-densite.
=DETONIT V.=--A German coal-mine explosive containing ammonium
nitrate, charcoal, vegetable meal, neutral salts, and not more than 4
per cent. of blasting gelatine.
=DETONITE SPECIAL= is an American coal-mine explosive on the
Permissible List. It contains ammonium nitrate.
=DOMINITE.=--A coal-mine explosive made by the Westphalia Anhalt
Explosives Co. in Germany, and formerly on the British Permitted
List--
Nitroglycerine 59·3
Nitrocotton 4
Paraffin oil 0·7
Ammonium oxalate 8·5
Potassium nitrate 18·5
Potassium chloride 4
Wood meal 5
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