Abstract
WE had lately under our notice a work on explosives which dealt with their manufacture more from an engineer's point of view than from that of a chemist, and consequently the various appliances were described with a detail which only a practical engineer could properly express. In the present volume the processes are placed before us exclusively from a chemist's point of view, and the appliances and machines used receive generally but a brief notice; indeed, some fifty sketches is the sum total of the illustrations covering the apparatus used in the manufacture of the numerous nitro-compounds touched upon in the book. Of these sketches a considerable number are of different pieces of chemical apparatus made use of in testing the raw or finished material.
Nitro-Explosives.
By P. Gerald Sanford Pp. xii + 270. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Sons, 1896.)
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H. Nitro-Explosives. Nature 54, 410–411 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054410a0
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