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An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing With An Introduction By Andrew Noble. Chapters Include: Howard's Discovery Of Fulminate Of Mercury - Braconnot's Discovery Of Nitrostarch - Schonbein's Discovery Of Guncotton - Guncotton In France - Guncotton In Scotland - Guncotton In England - The Patents Of Schonbein, Tonkin, And Abel - Letters From Berzelius, Hall And Schonbein, On Guncotton - The British Association Committee On Guncotton - The Manufacture Of Guncotton In Austria - The Manufacture Of Guncotton At Waltham Abbey - Abel On Guncotton - Abel On The Stability Of Guncotton - Abel On The Action Of Light And Heat Upon Guncotton - Abel On Heating Guncotton To 100 Degrees Celsius - Abel On Heating Guncotton To Fifty-Sixty Degrees Celsius - Abel On Pulping Guncotton And The Effect Of Alkalis - Abel On The Effect Of Alkalis On Guncotton - Abel On The Storage Of Guncotton - Abel's Principal Conclusions On Guncotton - Sobrero's Discovery Of Nitroglycerin - Nitroglycerin In Holland And England - Nobel's Patents (Dynamite, Blasting Gelatin, Gelignite, And Ballistite) - Analysis And Composition Of Nitroglycerin - The Decomposition Of Nitroglycerin By Caustic Potash - Certain Chemical Decompositions Of Nitroglycerin - Index

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