NITRO-EXPLOSIVES

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NITRO-EXPLOSIVES

A PRACTICAL TREATISE

CONCERNING THE

_PROPERTIES, MANUFACTURE, AND ANALYSIS OF NITRATED SUBSTANCES, INCLUDING
THE FULMINATES, SMOKELESS POWDERS, AND CELLULOID_

BY

P. GERALD SANFORD, F.I.C., F.C.S.

_Public Analyst to the Borough of Penzance; late Consulting Chemist to the
Cotton Powder Company Limited; and formerly Resident Chemist at the
Stowmarket Works of the New Explosives Company Limited, and the Hayle
Works of the National Explosive Company Limited_

~Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged~


PREFACE.


In compiling the following treatise, my aim has been to give a brief but
thoroughly practical account of the properties, manufacture, and methods