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AMONG the many explosive preparations which have during the last thirty years been proposed as substitutes for gunpowder, on account of greater violence and other special merits claimed for them, not one has yet competed with it successfully as a propelling agent, nor even as a safe and sufficiently reliable explosive agent for use in shells; for industrial applications and for very important military or naval uses, dependent upon the destructive effects of explosives, it has had, however, to give place, to a very important extent, and in some instances altogether, to preparations of gun-cotton and nitro-glycerine.
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Recent Contributions to the History of Detonating Agents 1 . Nature 20, 19–21 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020019a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/020019a0