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IT is impossible to look at this list of explosive substances prepared by Major Cundill without coming to the conclusion that the chemist has had little to do with the most of them. Mixtures are things which do not delight the chemical mind either in an explosive substance or anything else. It places too much reliance on some mechanical operation, mixing or something of that kind, to give the chemical notion of exactness in its composition.
A Dictionary of Explosives.
By Major J. P. Cundill. Published by the Royal Engineers Institute. (Chatham: Mackay and Co., 1889.)
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H., W. Our Book Shelf. Nature 40, 341–342 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040341b0
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