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""Notes On Military Explosives"" is a comprehensive guide to the use of explosives in military applications, written by Erasmus Morgan Weaver. The book covers a wide range of topics related to explosives, including their chemical composition, properties, and methods of manufacture. It also provides detailed instructions on how to handle and store explosives safely, as well as how to use them effectively in combat situations.The book begins with an overview of the history of explosives and their use in warfare, from gunpowder to modern high explosives. It then goes on to cover the various types of explosives, including dynamite, TNT, and C-4, and their respective uses and properties.In addition to discussing explosives themselves, the book also covers related topics such as detonators, fuses, and blasting caps, as well as the proper procedures for handling and storing these components.Throughout the book, Weaver emphasizes the importance of safety when working with explosives, providing detailed instructions on how to minimize the risk of accidents and injuries. He also provides practical advice on how to use explosives effectively in combat situations, including tips on how to create effective explosive charges and how to use them to maximum effect.Overall, ""Notes On Military Explosives"" is an essential resource for anyone involved in military operations or the use of explosives in any capacity. It provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, covering both theory and practical application, and is written in a clear and accessible style that makes it easy to understand and use.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Notes on Military Explosives has given an opportunity to bring them up-todate and to include such changes bearing upon the manufacture, use, storage, and transportation of military explosives as have developed during the last four years. It has particularly given the opportunity to introduce certain changes that have developed in connection with the European war. The more important of these latter changes have been the substitution of wood pulp for cotton in the manufacture of the nitrocellulose explosives, and the fixation of the nitrogen of the air by the three separate processes which are now iployed. Both of these important changes have been due to the ingenuity, cleverness, and skill of the German chemists. Generally speaking, there have been no new explosives introduced, and it would seem that in the matter of explosives the field is limited, apparently somewhat definitely, to the nitrocellulose series, the nitroglycerin series, the nitrobenzene series, the alkaline-metallic nitrate mixtures, and to a combination of two or more of these with the others. The great propellent explosive for guns continues to be nitrocellulose, alone or in combination with nitroglycerin. The explosive for charging shells appears to have been quite definitely reduced to picric acid or some derivative thereof; that for submarine mines and torpedoes to trinitrotoluol or guncotton. As to the old nitrate mixtures, they appear to be limited to hand grenades, rockets, and pyrotechnics. There has been inserted in the appendix of this edition a discussion of The Role of Chemistry in the War by Allerton S. Cushman, Ph. D., Director of the Institute of Industrial
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