| Ammonium nitrate | 73 |
| Barium nitrate | 19 |
| Starch and slightly-charred wood meal | 8 |
It was made by Curtis’s and Harvey.
ELEY SMOKELESS SPORTING POWDER is a shot-gun powder similar to E.C.
Ammon-ELSAGIT is a German coal-mine explosive. It contains ammonium nitrate, vegetable meal, not more than 6 per cent. of trinitro-toluene or other nitro-body, not more than 4 per cent. of [blasting gelatine], and may also contain fatty oils, alkali chlorides or oxalate, and sodium or potassium nitrate.
Gesteins-ELSAGIT has much the same composition, but the percentage of trinitro-toluene may be raised to 12, and it contains no sodium or potassium nitrate.
*EMPIRE POWDER is a smokeless shot-gun powder introduced in 1902 by Nobel’s Explosives Company. It is a fibrous 33-grain bulk powder, and, according to an analysis published in “Arms and Explosives,” 1917, p. 77, its composition is—
| Nitrocotton, insoluble | 48·0 |
| ” soluble | 34·0 |
| Metallic nitrates | 9·0 |
| Vaseline | 7·0 |
| Moisture | 2·0 |
ERGITE.—A blasting explosive which was made for a few years in a factory in North Wales. Other explosives were also made under the names of Granergite, Shattergite, etc.
ERIN GELIGNITE.—A [Gelignite] containing a small percentage of dinitro-toluene to prevent the nitroglycerine freezing.
ESSEX POWDER.—A coal-mine explosive made by the Explosives and Chemical Products, Ltd. It is on the Permitted List—