Formulas For Gelatin Dynamites ------------------------------ As with most of the explosive substances in this chapter, there are hundreds of different recipes. Each chemist claims he's got the most poweful and safest recipe. What I have attempted to do is collect the most common industrial and military formulas, since these function in the correct context that this book is written. NG = Nitroglycerin [1> NG 12 [2> NG 88 Guncotton 0.5 Potassium nitrate 5 Ammonium nitrate 87.5 Tetryl 7 [3> NG 9.5 [4> NG 9.5 Guncotton 0.5 Guncotton 0.5 Ammonium nitrate 59 Ammonium nitrate 59.5 Woodmeal 6 Woodmeal 6 Ammonium oxalate 10 Ammonium oxalate 5 Sodium chloride 15 Sodium chloride 19.5 [5> NG 24 [6> NG 12 Guncotton 1 Ammonium nitrate 87.5 Ammonium nitrate 75 Collodion cotton 0.5 [7> NG 71 [8> NG 75 Ammonium nitrate 23 Guncotton 5 Collodion cotton 4 Potassium nitrate 15 Charcoal powder 2 Woodmeal 5 [9> NG 12 [10> NG 30 Guncotton 0.5 Guncotton 1 Ammonium nitrate 82.5 Ammonium nitrate 68 Potassium nitrate 5 Sodium chloride 1 [11> NG 9.5 [12> NG 25 Ammonium nitrate 67.5 Ammonium nitrate 62 Woodmeal 8 Tetryl 1 Sodium chloride 15 Charcoal powder 12 [13> NG 80 [14> NG 60 Ethylene glycol dinitrate 20 Dinitrotoluene 40 [15> NG 60 [16> NG 29 Guncotton 4 Guncotton 1 Potassium nitrate 28 Ammonium nitrate 65 Woodmeal 8 Potassium nitrate 5 [17> NG 55 [18> NG 27 Guncotton 3 Guncotton 0.7 Potassium nitrate 18 Ammonium nitrate 30 Woodmeal 7 Sodium nitrate 30 Anhydrous magneium sulfate 17 Charcoal powder 11 Barium sulfate 1.3 [19> NG 29 Guncotton 1 Ammonium nitrate 70 ************************************************