TERRIT is a plastic blasting explosive made in Sweden, and consisting of ammonium perchlorate, sodium nitrate and liquid dinitro-toluene, gelatinised with collodion cotton—
| Ammonium perchlorate | 43 |
| Sodium nitrate | 28 |
| Dinitro-toluene (liquid) | 27·8 |
| Collodion cotton | 1·2 |
It is difficult to detonate.
TETRYL is the name usually given to tetranitro-methyl-aniline, the strictly scientific designation of which is trinitro-phenyl-methyl-nitramine—
It is used extensively as an intermediate detonating agent for high-explosive shell, as it is somewhat more sensitive than most of the explosives used, and can consequently be detonated by a small charge of fulminate. It is also called C. E.
Grisou-TETRILITE. See [Favier Powder].
TEUTONIT is a German [Favier] explosive containing not less than 70 per cent. of ammonium nitrate, not more than 5 per cent. of flour or potato meal, and not more than 15 per cent. of aromatic nitro- and dinitro-compounds. It may also contain neutral salts.
TEUTONITE was a name given occasionally to White Gunpowder (q. v.).
THAMES POWDER is a coal-mine explosive on the Permitted List made by the British Explosives Syndicate, Ltd.—