EXPLOSIVE PROPERTIES OF FLOUR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 839, 11 January 1883, Page 3

EXPLOSIVE PROPERTIES OF FLOUR.

Profeasor Tobin,-' of Louisville, Kenfor , some; time been engaged add atudying .the explosive qualities poaaesied' by dust u>f i various kinds, parV tlcularly weed, coal and flour. Recently he' delivered - a lecture on the subjept '1 which considerably astonished; the worthy , who had assembled to hear him. '' 'The audience manifested some incredulity, tv had the --lecturer was requested to tyy ”severaVsamples of flour selected by them, the ' -result being always rin his favor. Finally Rrfasked if abyonO present had in his possession'Aome flour, and the Presi- ? flV deht, Mr Potts, of Richmond ; handed a f' i lot of his best" production. J Tobin‘j ' 'placing' this into t appanatuß, 4 ' prbduced a greater - flash "tharfin*preTionß.'cases, amidst .a - atiitSuso. I '-'-The millers Wire con-'-«as : lmniant experiments that are'khear relative' to -..powder ' s *'Wo*o-glyceririe r storehouses, - * ofe.' ’ Professor Tobin a id lehith * iftfon tho subject of qxW.dj33Ly^^^|^e t- huge ! -miITS Wire?'levelled to, sOcbndtf, and ooiifclusP^Sea^'i^hM':—tfinnot tefriin from. ' to >- r factthat-hafi Bgdin^and/agak i|[M tiiinsntnrr-, and ’pqqvqntion. It is will absorb moisture its natural of. a .flourmill <is mill’, tttraediaI doubt not i m i n tini in fiii n few sn^ v thb but in 'cause, if = i l '' 'V ,L ■' > > ~ ' • ‘ rlT j SOTC9, incurable, tended to deit>. was incompetent to the symptoms i< teremovc. Houowa/s ?ilh powetslßver the jun Ith* ' thus Oint an< into ''fatal to man'