The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-06
BETTER THAN POWDER.
A Powerful Agent Added to the Lo"s A''
of High Explosives.

of High Explosives
To the already long list OF so-calieo
high explosives-of which there ai
about thirty-used in industrial Pur
suits or for war purposes another very
powerful explosive agent has loS' oeen
added. As its name-earbo-dyhaniiIo
implies, carbon forms part ol AUs
constitution. 1t should be stateu 'h"t
in ordinary dynamite seventy-hVe per
cent. Of nitrO-glycerine Is aosofoeu OS
twenty-five per cent. of kieselguhr' an
earthly mineral specially suitable tor
the manufacture of dynamite on ao-
count Of its absorbent property put
kieselguhr has this disadVantase-tii"'
it il incombustible. In caroo-oyha'
mite ninety parts by weight OF hl'ro
glycerine are taken up by ten pafVs VI
a specially prepared carbon OF a very
porous nature. As carbon Is com
bustible IT adds to the explosive e1ec'
of the whole mass, and in this respect
it will be seen. carbo-dynanIIo l.
superior to ordinary dynamite,
But it possesses other adVanages'
which were demonstrated at o'her
trials carried out at Ireheroer''
Rhondda valley. South Wales. In the
first experiment an elghty-Pouno
doubIe-headed steel rail, placed on us
side. was smashed through by an ounce
and q half of carbo-dynamite, aoou'
II
clean away. In the next a large DOW
der of hard sandstone, weighing aoout
two tons, was broken up by t"o-
ounce Charge of carbohydrates,
EQUAL charges Of quarter ounce ol
carbo-dyuamite and ordinary dynamite
were also exploded inside two thlcN
lead cylinders, of capacity OF 1our
and three-fourtls cubic inches WIN
the result that this capacity was eH-
handed to nearly thirty-six CUBIC
inches with carbo-dynamite, but 10
only tweuty-ouc inches with ordinary
dynamite. ,.
Similar charges of the two explosives
were then placed inside two thick steel
tubes. each one foot long. The ordlha'
ry DYNAMITE burst its tube we'll ouc Ihe
carbo-cyramite did its work mucn De'~
ter, bending the tube as wei as OIi'sv-
ing it. and sending It'll some fifteen YARDS
from the point Of explosion.
The last experiment in the open con"
sisted in placing one ounce caclI VI
-
carh"-4ynamlte ana ORDINARY uS N.'iNtc0 y.
on fat steel disks, three hche7 Ill "a
amater and fve-slNteenths Ol al -non
thick, and supported on rings or COZ
lars. After the explosion II was '""""
that tn" ordinary dynamite nau 4n"c!'V'
ed IT, dix quarter ol an men, '''.0
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