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HERE have been no epoch-making discoveries in explosives such as, say, the discovery of nitroglycerine for many years. Nitroglycerine, discovered in 1846, still remains the most powerful explosive in practical use. Many useful advances have been and are being made, but new explosives are merely new mixtures of old materials, given fancy names. The nations at war use practically the same explosives, and no one can be said to be ahead of the others.
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Military Explosives of To-day 1 . Nature 102, 216–218 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102216b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102216b0