Excerpt from Tnt as a Blasting Explosive The investigations reported herein were undertaken and this paper has been prepared Solely to aid In the Salvage of the surplus tnt accumulated for war uses and released by the declaration of the armistice. No funds were available nor have any been appropriated with which to defray the expense of converting this tnt into any other form or to prepare any explosive mixture from it. The sole problem was to find appropriate uses for the tnt in existing needs and to show that it could be efficiently Used without Change in carry ing out essential civil projects. It is not intended to promote the use of tnt as an industrial explo sive. On the contrary, the authors believe that tnt is unlikely to be generally used, principally because of its cost. The clouds of smoke given off 'by tnt on explosion Show that we are not obtaining from it its highest efficiency. It can be improved by mixing the tnt in proper proportions with sodium nitrate or ammonium nitrate or some other cheap oxidizing agent which will consume the excess combustible matter in the tnt. By such admixture not only Will the energy resident in the tnt be utilized to a larger extent, but the cost of the resulting explosive should be much less than that of tnt. It may be desirable to add other material with which to waterproof this product. But these are problems which should be treated else where. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.