Chapter VIII · —FIRING POINT OF EXPLOSIVES, HEAT TESTS, &C.
Reading edition
Horsley's Apparatus—Table of Firing Points—The Government Heat Test Apparatus, &c., for Dynamites, Nitro-Glycerine, Nitro-Cotton, and Smokeless Powders—Guttmann's Heat Test—Liquefaction and Exudation Tests— Page's Regulator for Heat Test Apparatus—Specific Gravities of Explosives—Will's Test for Nitro-Cellulose—Table of Temperature of Detonation, Sensitiveness, &c.