Nitro-Explosives: A Practical TreatiseSanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
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Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
Sanford, P. Gerald (Percy Gerald)
Celluloid; Explosives
Bernthsen summary of nitro-benzenes, 133.
Blasting gelatine, 119.
Blasting charge, preparation of, 166.
B.N. powder, 190.
Boiling-point of N.G., 19.
Boutnny's nitro-glycerine process, 15.
Brown on wet gun-cotton, 56.
Brugere's powder, 195.
Bucknill's resistance coil, 13.
Calculation of volume of gas evolved in an explosive reaction, 276.
Cannonite, 189.
Cellulose, 2, 47.
Celluloid manufacture, 91.
analysis, 230.
cartridges, 91.
uses of, 90.
Field's papers on, 93.
fibre for, 94.
nitration of fibre, &c., 95.
formula of, 57.
Champion and Pellet's method of determining nitrogen, 223.
Chenel's modification of Kjeldahl's method, 227.
Collodion-cotton, 79.
Comparative tests of black and nitro-powders, 193.
Compressing gun-cotton, 77.
Composition of waste acids from nitro-glycerine, 43.
Composition of some common explosives, 290.
Conduits for nitro-glycerine, 7.
Cooppal powder, 5, 189.
Cordite manufacture, 169.
analysis, 206.
Cresilite, 158.
Cross and Bevan on nitro-jute, 107.
Crusher gauge, 284.
Cundill, Colonel, classification of dynamites, 112.
Danger area, 5.
Dangers in the manufacture of gun-cotton, 85.
Decomposition of cellulose, 54.
Definition of explosives in Order of Council (Explosives Act), 1.
Determination of N_{2}O_{4} in nitric acid, 24.
Determination of strength of H_{2}SO_{4}, 25.
Determination of relative strength of explosives, 272.
Detonators, 163.
Di-nitro-toluene, 138.
Dipping cotton in manufacture of gun-cotton, 60.
Divers and Kawakita on the fulminates, 159.
Dixon, Prof. H.B., on roburite explosions, 139.
Drying house for gun-cotton, 122.
Dynamite, efficiency of, 118.
frozen dynamite, 116.
gelatine dynamite, 119.
properties of kieselguhr dynamite, 116.
Reid & Borland's carbo-dynamite, 119.
Rhenish dynamite, 119.
various kinds of, 119.
E.C. powder, 186.
Electronite, 151.
Emmensite, 195.
Equation of formation of nitro-glycerine, 16.
Equation of formation of nitro-cellulose, 50.
Exploders, electric, 167.
Explosion gases of dynamite, 19.
nitro-glycerine, 18.
gun-cotton, 55.
roburite, 139.
Exudation test gelatines, 257.
Faversham powder, 147.
Favier's explosive, 149.
Field on celluloid, 93, 99.
Firing-point of explosives, 247.
Filite, 180.
Filtering nitre-glycerine, 37.
Flameless explosives, 89, 138, 144.
Formation of white matter in the nitration of N.G., 39.
Forcite, 119.
France, 82.
Free fatty acid in glycerine, 39, 235.
Freeing nitric acid from N_{2}O_{4}, 25.
Freezing-point of N.G., 21.
French Commission on Ammonium Nitrate, 142.
Fulminates constitution, 159.
Fulminate of mercury, 159, 240.
Fulminate of silver, 161.
Fuses, various kinds of, 166.
Gases formed by the decomposition of nitro-glycerine, 18.
Gelatine explosives, analysis of, 199.
Glycerine, analysis of, 233.
formula of, 16.
nitration of, 23.
Greiner's powder, 190.
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