PROPERTIES OF FROZEN DYNAMITE.
Major Majehdie, R.A., lias rtiiule ii feeries of experiment, in order to ascertain whether dynailiite in tile frozen fcondition was m'dfe or less susceptible to explosion by percussion and by the action of fil’d than dynamite iti any Unfrozen plastic coliditidh. He has come to the conclusions that frozen dynamite is considerably less sensitive to explosion bjr a blow than Unfrozen dynamite ; that cartridges of dynamite having small quantities of eluded nitro-glyceritle within them are decidedly more sensitive to Explosion by a blow than cartridges in which there is no such exudation; that frozen dynamite is much less susceptible to explosion by simple ignition than Unfrozen dynamite * that froz3n dynamite is much less sensitive to explosion by the impact of a bullet than unfrozen dynamite ; that the danger attending the mere breaking in two of a frozen dynamite cartridge does not seem to be of the formidable character indicated by the Austrian regulations ; and that frozen nitre-glycerine is not susceptible bf defoliation by detonators of the same Strength as those with which the detonation of unfrozen nitre-glycerine may be readily and certainly effected.
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Kumara Times, Issue 872, 17 July 1879, Page 3
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187PROPERTIES OF FROZEN DYNAMITE. Kumara Times, Issue 872, 17 July 1879, Page 3
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