CHEMISTRY OF GELATIN STICK
Gelatin stick also known as gelignite, was invented by Nobel in 1875, it is a mixture of nitroglycerine or nitrocellulose, wood pulp, and sodium or potassium nitrates which is gelatinised using gelatin. This was an early low-cost, flexible explosive.Chemically it is known as trinitroglycerin, trinitroglycerine, 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane and glyceryl trinitrate, is a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid produced by nitrating glycerol.
Gelatin dynamite comprises nitrocotton and nitroglycerin combines to provide a viscous liquid or gelatinous mass and subdivided solid materials which are insoluble in the nitroglycerin.
tags-basting gelatin,explosive
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