As now made, roburite is a mixture of ammonium nitrate and chlorinated di-nitro-benzol.
In fact, the only way to explode roburite is to detonate it by means of a cap of fulminate, containing at least 1 gramme of fulminate of mercury.
After a protracted investigation, a long and technical report was issued, completely vindicating the innocuousness of roburite when properly used.
If roburite be mixed with gunpowder, and the gunpowder fired, the explosion simply scatters the roburite without affecting it in the least.
Five pounds and a half of roburite were used in twenty-three shots.
In appearance roburite is a brownish yellow powder, with the characteristic smell of nitro-benzol.
A shot of roburite fired in the boiler tube without any gas or suspended coal dust.
Wardell, was also present, and the Roburite Explosives Company was represented by Lieut.
This gave no perceptible flame (70 grammes of roburite was the charge in these experiments).
Under the same conditions as to firedamp, a charge of roburite was placed on a block of wood inside the boiler, totally unconfined except by a thin covering of coal dust.
Mr. Walker was so impressed with the great advantages of roburite that he desired to introduce it into his own colliery, where he gladly arranged with the company to make the first coal mining experiments in this country.
The result was most striking, and appeared to carry conviction of the great comparative safety of roburite to all present.
These gentlemen had ample opportunity of seeing roburite used in the coal mines of Westphalia, and it was mainly upon their testimony that the patents for the British empire were acquired by the Roburite Explosive Company.
On the old British Permitted List were Ammonite, Westfalite, Bellite andRoburite amongst others.
The explosive has also been made in England by the Roburite Explosives Co.
A coal-mine explosive made by Roburiteand Ammonal, Ltd.
A coal-mine explosive of the Grisounite class made by Roburite and Ammonal, Ltd.
A coal-mine explosive of the Ammonal type made by the Roburite Explosives Co.
Unlike dynamite, roburite is said to be in no way affected by varying temperatures, and if duly protected against damp, it may be kept for years in any climate, without its efficiency becoming in any way impaired.
It is also claimed by the manufacturers that roburite has an explosive force greater than dynamite by at least 25 per cent.
Excellent accounts of the effects of dinitro-benzol in roburite factories have been published by Dr.
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