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—» — LECTURE ON EXPLOSIVES. Owing to the -Unfavourable weather the weekly parade of the Island BayBerhampore Company on Tuesday evening was held in the schoolroom instead of on the Wakefield Park, as originally intended. This change of programme, however, afforded ail excellent opportunity for a lecture which had been promised by Mr. A. Whitelaw on a subject in wliiob he is expert, i.e., "High Explosives." Using the low explosive gun-powder as a basis for comparison, t'he Icclurer explained tho action and composition of those high explosives of which we hear so much at present, such as gun-cotton, liitro-gly-cerine, cordite, and lyddite, and also the less known T.N.T. and T.T.N.A. The lccture, while thoroughly scientific, was couched in popular language, and proved intensely interesting, and at t'he same time very instructive from a military point of view.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2604, 28 October 1915, Page 9
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137NATIONAL RESERVE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2604, 28 October 1915, Page 9
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