Word: nitroglycerin
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...pressure wave in the water. As evidence that modern high explosives are not to be tampered with, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins exhibited a lantern slide depicting the impression of an apple leaf driven into solid steel by guncotton, declared the detonation in a tube of nitroglycerin proceeds at four mi. per sec., described a new explosive, iodide of nitrogen, which is so skittish that the landing of a housefly sets...
...drugs which Dr. Brooks prefers in attacks of angina pectoris are amyl nitrate or nitroglycerin. He also uses chloral hydrate, paraldehyde and barbiturates...
...Caetani calmly proposed to blow off the entire mountain top. "Let's get under their seats," he said, "and blast." With 80 picked miners Prince Caetani drove a tunnel nearly half a mile long into the living rock, so quietly that the Austrians noticed nothing. Five tons of nitroglycerin were tamped into the galleries. On the night of April 17, 1916 the Engineer Prince was ready...
...Lacey learned what had happened, nodded, called for soap flakes and ammonia. These he calmly poured into the nitroglycerin, announced that the explosive was "neutralized." Under his supervision the mixture was carried outside and poured down a sewer...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...