12 May 2020, 02:49
Nordic2Nitro Nobel Bofors
I found a old movie showing making cotton powder in Nobels factory in Karlskoga, making nitroglycerine (carried in buckets) mixing it with cotton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZtk1j6umc12 May 2020, 13:49
sambarman338Interesting. When I was young nitroglycerine was portrayed in film as so volatile that a vial of it getting dropped would cause a significant explosion.
If that is true, those men seemed to be very off-hand about the dangers.
OSHA would have fun with those guys.
C.G.B.
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Originally posted by sambarman338:
Interesting. When I was young nitroglycerine was portrayed in film as so volatile that a vial of it getting dropped would cause a significant explosion.
If that is true, those men seemed to be very off-hand about the dangers.
That is true for acidic nitroglycerine - if you let a drop fall onto a hard surface, it will readily detonate. Once the acid is neutralized, nitroglycerine is much more stable. That is why today it is made in a continuous process where only a small amount of acidic nitroglycerine is present at any given time.
The older batch process was much more dangerous and many lives were lost in explosions of the batch reactors.