Ginny Gum, Guncotton’s manager, used to look out across the street on vacant storefronts. Now, she sees Paddy’s Irish Pub and Haley’s Honey Meadery. The Skrimp Shack, ...

The substance is described as being volatile and can also be used as a low-level explosive, known as guncotton. The company was not making any comment in the aftermath of the fire and explosion.

Germany's largest arms manufacturer Rheinmetall on Monday said it plans to take over a supplier specializing in nitrocellulose, a product used as a propellant in artillery ammunition and other ...

Answer: Flash paper, guncotton, nitrocellulose, it’s all the same stuff with different names. It was a serendipity, or chance discovery. Christian Friedrich Schonbein (1799-1868) was a German ...

Abel argued that dynamite was far more dangerous than guncotton, which was not true. In 1871, Nobel built an explosives factory in in Scotland. In 1875, a less stringent explosives Act was was passed.

The Guncotton Problem. By Frederick H. Mcgahie. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter. Enter your email. I agree my information will be processed in ...

An explosion that wiped out half a town and killed dozens of people more than 150 years ago is being remembered. Known as the "guncotton explosion", a build-up of vapours from chemically soaked ...

An explosion that wiped out half a town and killed dozens of people more than 150 years ago is being remembered. Known as the "guncotton explosion", a build-up of vapours from chemically soaked cotton ...

Known as the "guncotton explosion", a build-up of vapours from chemically soaked cotton is thought to have caused the blast in Stowmarket, Suffolk, on 11 August 1871.

Schönbein referred to guncotton in this letter as follows:— FOR centuries the only explosive known to the world was that mechanical mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur called gunpowder.