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.