TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.—INTRODUCTION.
The Nitro-Explosives—Substances that have been Nitrated—The Danger Area—
Systems of Professors Lodge, Zenger, and Melsens for the Protection of
Buildings from Lightning, &c.
CHAPTER II.—NITRO-GLYCERINE.
Properties of Nitro-Glycerine—Manufacture—Nitration—Separation—Washing and Filtering—Drying, Storing, &c.—The Waste Acids—Their Treatment— Nitric Acid Plants
CHAPTER III.—NITRO-CELLULOSE, &C.
Cellulose Properties—Discovery of Gun-Cotton—Properties of Gun-Cotton—
Varieties of Soluble and Insoluble Gun-Cottons—Manufacture of Gun-Cotton—
Dipping and SteepingWhirling Out the Acid—Washing, Boiling, Pulping,
Compressing—The Waltham Abbey Process—Le Bouchet Process—Granulation of
Gun-Cotton—Collodion-Cotton—Manufacture—Acid Mixture Used—Cotton Used,
&c.—Nitrated Gun-Cotton—Tonite—Dangers in Manufacture of Gun-Cotton—
Trench's Fire-Extinguishing Compound—Uses of Collodion-Cotton—Celluloid—
Manufacture, &c.—Nitro-Starch, Nitro-Jute, and Nitro-Mannite
CHAPTER IV.—DYNAMITE.
Kieselguhr Dynamite—Classification of Dynamites—Properties and
Efficiency of Ordinary Dynamite—Other forms of Dynamite—Gelatine and
Gelatine Dynamites, Suitable Gun-Cotton for, and Treatment of—Other
Materials Used—Composition of Gelignite—Blasting Gelatine—Gelatine
Dynamite—Absorbing Materials—Wood Pulp—Potassium Nitrate, &c.—
Manufacture, &c.—Apparatus Used—The Properties of the Gelatine Compounds
CHAPTER V.—NITRO-BENZOL, ROBURITE, BELLITE, PICRIC ACID, &c.
Explosives derived from Benzene—Toluene and Nitro-Benzene—Di- and
Tri-nitro-Benzene—Roburite: Properties and Manufacture—Bellite:
Properties, &c.—Securite—Tonite No. 3.—Nitro-Toluene—
Nitro-Naphthalene—Ammonite—Sprengel's Explosives—Picric Acid—
Picrates—Picric Powders—Melinite—Abel's Mixture—Brugère's Powders—
The Fulminates—Composition, Formula, Preparation, Danger of, &c.—
Detonators: Sizes, Composition, Manufacture—Fuses, &c.
THE FULMINATES.
Composition, Formula, Preparation, Danger of, &c.—Detonators: Sizes,
Composition, Manufacture—Fuses, &c.
CHAPTER VI.—SMOKELESS POWDERS IN GENERAL.
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—Lungé, 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.