Show A MEW EXPLOSIVE K start ot the amerian artillery havil been for hitoe in inaki ui cx at the ot camhy ou a material T mab M aid to far greater explosive poow than any other hitherto erca danns n griea of relative to dynamite anil arun cotton X nobel found that alio latter bouli be prepared I 1 ch a y tle it could bei completely in nitro f tho LI a anil nhi cli at tho highest iloe not part wilh btty ot ditro tabt geIa tinB bakr can not la fired by ady hock but only pots on with difficulty and imperfectly when jg fuelber hov that with it a new compound coald be formed admirably to all military this 1 prepared by dimply nd din A camphor to the the proportions arc 4 per cent of abo formet to wi per cent ot the latter which conditt con of CO per cent ot and 10 peel cent of til mi cotton tha mw is clostio cla stio ot a r color anil can be cut wibb when on anre tn the op cnair it barni like or dry eun cotton it only birb at a very high temperature mid alio action of tho camphor U acry evident in that respect for the ordinary by itself explode at centi g rada fahrenheit ehno the heat required to produce that effect after tha addition of tho camphor cannot be by any 0 the usually applied for that tho now cannot bo fired by ft blow even from a broj oc tile it ahong no filen file n of alteration even after hating been latt in water for 43 hours by cold it forms n man re gugar candy and it i then more to mechanical action but a coon as it is thawed it resumes all its original properties hen exploded however it produces ices emoke ban dynamite dyn amito pr mi cotton n etli a clearer odd more sonorous sono rons and has tar creator force than tho principle plo objection to it adoption wan the difficulty of H ant that has been overcome M hen cotton tore 13 subjected to the action of sulphuric acid n white substance is obtained which has received the name of if cully in nitric acid when it nitro this compound mixed in tha proportion of 40 pel cent with CO per cent of nitro glycerine bonns the brnoit powerful means of ignition ever hitherto discovered by properly con firing cartridges of that substance the explosive gc latino becomer as abac AS ordinary powder with leas danser and fai force |