Cordite--Axite--Ballistite--U.S. Naval Powder--Schultze's E.C. Powder-- Indurite--Vielle Poudre--Walsrode and Cooppal Powders--Amberite-- Troisdorf--B.N. Powder--Wetterin--Normal Powder--Maximite--Picric Acid Powders, &c. &c. CHAPTER VII.--ANALYSIS OF EXPLOSIVES. Kieselguhr Dynamite--Gelatine Compounds--Tonite--Cordite--Vaseline-- Acetone--Scheme for Analysis of Explosives--Nitro-Cotton--Solubility Test-- Non-Nitrated Cotton--Alkalinity--Ash and Inorganic Matter--Determination of Nitrogen--Lunge, Champion and Pellet's, Schultze-Tieman, and Kjeldahl's Methods--Celluloid--Picric Acid and Picrates--Resinous and Tarry Matters-- Sulphuric Acid and Hydrochloric Acid and Oxalic Acid--Nitric Acid-- Inorganic Impurities--General Impurities and Adulterations--Potassium Picrate, &c.--Picrates of the Alkaloids--Analysis of Glycerine--Residue-- Silver Test--Nitration--Total Acid Equivalent--Neutrality--Free Fatty Acids--Combined Fatty Acids--Impurities--Oleic Acid--Sodium Chloride-- Determination of Glycerine--Waste Acids--Sodium Nitrate--Mercury Fulminate--Cap Composition--Table for Correction of Volumes of Gases, for Temperature and Pressure CHAPTER VIII.--FIRING POINT OF EXPLOSIVES, HEAT TESTS, &C. Horsley's Apparatus--Table of Firing Points--The Government Heat Test Apparatus, &c., for Dynamites, Nitro-Glycerine, Nitro-Cotton, and Smokeless Powders--Guttmann's Heat Test--Liquefaction and Exudation Tests-- Page's Regulator for Heat Test Apparatus--Specific Gravities of Explosives--Will's Test for Nitro-Cellulose--Table of Temperature of Detonation, Sensitiveness, &c. CHAPTER IX.--THE DETERMINATION OF THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF EXPLOSIVES. Effectiveness of an Explosive--High and Low Explosives--Theoretical Efficiency--M.M. Roux and Sarrau's Results--Abel and Noble's--Nobel's Ballistic Test--The Mortar--Pressure or Crusher Gauge--Calculation Volume of Gas Evolved, &c.--Lead Cylinders--The Foot-Pounds Machine--Noble's Pressure Gauge--Lieut. Walke's Results--Calculation of Pressure Developed by Dynamite and Gun-Cotton--McNab's and Ristori's Results of Heat Developed by the Explosion of Various Explosives--Composition of some of the Explosives in Common Use for Blasting, &c. INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.