Show I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I UTAH MINERS WOULD BE BEBEN BEN BENEFITED ED EDI I Morning Examiner A German paper contains a description description tion of a now new explosive which prom promises to make min mg It a less dangerous I risk and health occupation Literary Digest In translating the Gel Ger man article says I Ammonal the now new explosive has the tho advantage that it can not be set setoff off by or ry means menns but requIres a special detonator of great power so hat accidents are aro nearly impossible This quality is due to the fact It is a mixture or of a metal ha having great I II affinity for oX oxygen gen with an explosive I whose constItuents are easily epa sepa separated rated Says the wrIter I Chemistry tells us that certain el elI elements I uniting Into Inlo compounds of great power can ho disengaged from I these cum pounds only by br the application I tion or of a certain form olm of cn ry of equal In such cases ono one says that these ha have e great I affinity for tor each other Ordinary anal analyses are ire unable to separate th their il ele elements elements ments violent means being essential Ono One hundred years ago a o trIals Fero made to separate aluminum into I Its components but It required more l powerful methods that thun then exIsted to I effect was the sought for agent 1 There are other chemical con com compounds pounds whose Ingredients have havo little for each othOl otho so that ani anly fl a smell influence Is necessary to sop sep sepI I crate arale them AmmonIum nItrate Is Isono isone ono one of thIs class an odorless heavy vapor apol being distilled from flom it il at fl a low temperature antI and than thon serving as a narcotic If suddenly Ignited ammo ammonIum ammonium nitrate separates into its Ih ele elements elements ments with immense force then ha haIng hay haying Ing time the nature or of nn an explosIve And rot yot It Is not available for this purpose being far inferior to d dynamite and other explosives It IL has hOti never neer olho qualities making it a splendid lt it is absolutely I smokeless and tho products of Its combustion are uro Innocuous I The Idea Ideo was easilY suggested of am finely alum wIth nitrate the product yielding nn explosive e of tremendous force Ammons the tho given givon to lo It can be graduated In Its power b by I lug the relation or of its Uti compo J I so that It has hns the tho force of the I most powerful nitroglycerin o 01 time tho weakest of black In inthis I this manner mannor cnn can be bc adapted to all of work In mines for the tho I I extraction of coal conI and slate In which the explosIon must have a 0 slow loos loosening ening effect and of gold In which the theore theore ore can be moved only by It a su sudden den crushing movement I T The le manner of operation or of the new explosive Is obvious from what whal has been said above The pulverized p I aluminum m on being heing ignited t is up the oxygen of the nitrate generating an enormous or of heat cent amid expanding t the e act with explosive force Other ox ex explosives plosives employed in mines eol evolve noxious vapors but ammonal oft off only nItrogen oxygen and steam nil all nilI allI I substances beneficial rather than harmful A further am am ammonal I monal is the tho complete safety or of Its manufacture whIch renders superfluous ous the extra precautIons usually taken In makIng other explosives It may maybo mayho ho bo stored wIthout danger and the quality qualIty Ity is not affected by time as long as asit asIt it is kept in a dry place We Vo road further Exhaustive trIals have been made madeI wIth ammonal Three pounds of the tho I strongest quality were placed in a aI I package and thrown Into the tire Ure The package m merely burned without any fl ny explosion occurrIng Then one pound was VUi placed on a rock and lilt hit with a ahammer L hammer no explosion resulting five I pounds vero laId on a railway track an engine engino and eight trucks passIng I over oer it without causIng any damage FinaU Finally u a package containing three pounds was shot at with a revolver at close range likewise without results I In fact ammonal can call be only by b means menns of a slow match It II is pressed Into the form of a bobbin and thus can be placed in the tho I I Undoubtedly this now invention is isa 1 a wonderful scientific achievement I and will produce many changes In the tho I present nature or of blasting Its im importance can not bo estimated since I more and more mines are being ox I I plotted plaited more mor uses arc being found for explosives above aboe and under ground and the future will no doubt discover I even oon other uses I I An 1 n explosive of this hind would be invaluable to the mining Industry of i I Utah and other othel western states where mIning Is carried on extensively There have hao been thousands of deaths in our silver lead copper md and gold amines i from rom hIgh explosives also from time the fumes of gIant powder Thousands or of mIners have hao been asphyxIated by br brI bythe I the poisonous gases generated in underground un underground blasting where the pure air supply Imas been WIth Rith thus this now explosive one of the worst ele elements ments in mining would be eliminated i I |