NEW EXPLOSIVE FOUND
AMERICAN INVENTION MORE POWERFUL THAN T.N.T. (U)Uted P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. PASADENA, Sunday. A new explosive, of which radium is an important ingredient, was reported by military professors of the California Institute of Technology to have shown itself 30 per cent, more powerful than tri-notro-tolluine, and 15 per cent, more effective than commercial dynamite, in official tests conducted to-day.
The inventor is Captain Zimmer, of Los Angeles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 9
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