Abel’s, Sir Frederick, method of manufacturing gun-cotton, 57.

Abel’s heat test, 249.

Acid mixture for nitrating nitro-glycerine, 23.

Air pressure in nitrator, 28.

Alkalinity in nitro-cellulose, 217.

Amberite, 189.

Ammonite, 149.

Analyses of collodion-cotton, 81.
  gelatine dynamites, 123.

Analysis of explosives, 197.
  acetone, 209.
  blasting gelatine, 199.
  cap composition, 241.
  cordite, 206.
  celluloid, 230.
  dynamite, 197.
  forcite, 202.
  fulminate, 240.
  glycerine, 233.
  gun-cotton, 212.
  nitric acid, 24.
  picric acid, 230.
  tonite, 205.
  waste acids, 239.

Armstrong on the constitution of the fulminates, 159.

Atlas powder, 119.

Auld on acetone, 211.

Axite, 176.

Ballistite, 179.

Beater or Hollander for pulping gun-cotton, 64.

Bedson, Prof., on roburite explosion gases, 140.

Bellite, 142.

Benzene, explosives derived from, 132.

Benzene, mono-nitro- and di-nitro-benzene, 134.

Bergmann and Junk on nitro-cellulose tests, 268.

Bernthsen summary of nitro-benzenes, 133.

Blasting gelatine, 119.

Blasting charge, preparation of, 166.

B.N. powder, 190.

Boiling-point of N.G., 19.

Boutnny’s nitro-glycerine process, 15.

Brown on wet gun-cotton, 56.

Brugere’s powder, 195.

Bucknill’s resistance coil, 13.

Calculation of volume of gas evolved in an explosive reaction, 276.

Cannonite, 189.

Cellulose, 2, 47.

Celluloid manufacture, 91.
  analysis, 230.
  cartridges, 91.
  uses of, 90. 
  Field’s papers on, 93.
  fibre for, 94.
  nitration of fibre, &c., 95.
  formula of, 57.

Champion and Pellet’s method of determining nitrogen, 223.

Chenel’s modification of Kjeldahl’s method, 227.

Collodion-cotton, 79.

Comparative tests of black and nitro-powders, 193.

Compressing gun-cotton, 77.

Composition of waste acids from nitro-glycerine, 43.

Composition of some common explosives, 290.

Conduits for nitro-glycerine, 7.

Cooppal powder, 5, 189.

Cordite manufacture, 169.
  analysis, 206.

Cresilite, 158.

Cross and Bevan on nitro-jute, 107.

Crusher gauge, 284.

Cundill, Colonel, classification of dynamites, 112.

Danger area, 5.

Dangers in the manufacture of gun-cotton, 85.

Decomposition of cellulose, 54.

Definition of explosives in Order of Council (Explosives Act), 1.

Determination of N_{2}O_{4} in nitric acid, 24.

Determination of strength of H_{2}SO_{4}, 25.