Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 585
t more powerful than pure nitro-glycerin. Notwithstanding its high explosiveproperty, however, it is but little affected by 462 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Mar., shock and will not explode from fire even ifa mass of it be stirred with a red-hot iron.Heated in an open vessel it will… … EXPLOSIVES APPLIED TO A HlGE STUMPAND ROOTS OF A TREE. Photograph by Arthur H. Green, with multi-speed shutter in one thousandthsecond. acid, but its real make-up is secret. Picricacid is obtained by treating phenol with strongnitric acid. These explosives can be set offonly by special fuses, which…
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