carbonite

carbonite
a) An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.

He was pleased with bellite, he found that carbonite made more fumes than bellite, but the explosive he liked best was ammonite.

b) A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.

Although this proved safe in the usual pit gas mixtures, yet it was found impossible to manipulate it, so another explosive, carbonite, made by the same firm, was tried. This was safe in small charges only ; improvements were made, and in September 1887 a carbonite consisting of saltpetre, cellulose, nitro-glycerine, and sulphuretted oil was found to be absolutely safe.


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