Chemistry:Nitrolite
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Nitrolite is an older form of powdery high explosive with an ammonium nitrate base, mixed with a smaller amount of TNT and nitroglycerin etc.[1][2][3][4] It is used for mining, construction as well as military purposes. During World War II it came to be a budget replacement for more expensive TNT.[2]
References
- ↑ "nitrolit". 1929. https://www.saob.se/artikel/?seek=nitrolit#U_N445_139379.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thorsson, Nils (1975) (in sv). Historik och kartläggning av vapenmateriel för flygplan. Sweden. pp. 74.
- ↑ "Svensk militär explosivämnesutveckling i modern tid – från Nobel till kvävekluster, Del I: intill ca 1980". Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift (Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien (Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences)): 41. 1944. booklet 5, 2005. https://kkrva.se/wp-content/uploads/Artiklar/055/kkrvaht_5_2005_4.pdf.
- ↑ (in sv) AMORDLISTA, Preliminär ammunitionsordlista (1979 ed.). Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish Defence Materiel Administration. 1979. pp. 49.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrolite.
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