=ECHO= or =EKKO= is a blasting explosive made at Nitedal in Norway, consisting of ammonium nitrate, nitrocotton, trinitro-toluene, aluminium powder, and sometimes ferro-silicon. It has been used on the Continent for filling hand-grenades. *=ECONOMIC SMOKELESS SPORTING POWDER= is a 42-grain bulk powder for shot-guns, made by the E.C. Powder Company. =ECRASITE= or =EKRASIT= is a high explosive used in Austria for filling shell and other military purposes. It is the ammonium salt of trinitro-cresol. =ELECTRONITE.=--There have been several explosives of this name, but none of them have been used extensively, and all are dead now. There was a coal-mine explosive formerly on the Permitted List-- Ammonium nitrate 73 Barium nitrate 19 Starch and slightly-charred wood meal 8 It was made by Curtis’s and Harvey. =ELEY SMOKELESS SPORTING POWDER= is a shot-gun powder similar to =E.C.= Ammon-=ELSAGIT= is a German coal-mine explosive. It contains ammonium nitrate, vegetable meal, not more than 6 per cent. of trinitro-toluene or other nitro-body, not more than 4 per cent. of blasting gelatine, and may also contain fatty oils, alkali chlorides or oxalate, and sodium or potassium nitrate. Gesteins-=ELSAGIT= has much the same composition, but the percentage of trinitro-toluene may be raised to 12, and it contains no sodium or potassium nitrate. *=EMPIRE POWDER= is a smokeless shot-gun powder introduced in 1902 by Nobel’s Explosives Company. It is a fibrous 33-grain bulk powder, and, according to an analysis published in “Arms and Explosives,” 1917, p. 77, its composition is-- Nitrocotton, insoluble 48·0 ” soluble 34·0 Metallic nitrates 9·0 Vaseline 7·0 Moisture 2·0 =ERGITE.=--A blasting explosive which was made for a few years in a factory in North Wales. Other explosives were also made under the names of Granergite, Shattergite, etc. =ERIN GELIGNITE.=--A Gelignite containing a small percentage of dinitro-toluene to prevent the nitroglycerine freezing. =ESSEX POWDER.=--A coal-mine explosive made by the Explosives and Chemical Products, Ltd. It is on the Permitted List-- _Date of Permit_ 1-9-13 Nitroglycerine 23 Nitrocotton 1 Potassium nitrate 34 Wheat flour 36 Ammonium chloride 6 Limit charge 38 oz. Power (swing of ballistic pendulum) 2·17” =EUREKA No. 2= is an American coal-mine explosive on the Permissible List. It contains nitroglycerine and a hydrated salt. =EXCELLITE.=--A coal-mine explosive formerly on the Permitted List-- Nitroglycerine 8 Ammonium nitrate 82·5 Collodion cotton 1 Dinitro-toluene 3 Wood meal 4·5 Castor oil 1