Part 36

=TUTOL.=--A coal-mine explosive made by the Westphalia Anhalt Explosives Co. in Germany. It was on the old Permitted List. A variation of it, No. 2, was for a time on the new List, but it was repealed in Nov. 1916.

No. 2. Nitroglycerine 25 25 Potassium nitrate 33 -- Barium nitrate 2 -- Sodium nitrate -- 29 Wood meal 39·8 36·3 Sodium chloride -- 9·5 Sodium bicarbonate 0·2 0·2

Limit charge -- 22 oz. Power (swing of ballistic pendulum) -- 2·11”

=UPLEES POWDER.=--A coal-mine explosive of the Grisounite type made by the Cotton Powder Co. It was for a time on the Permitted List but was repealed in 1914.

=VELOX GELATINE.=--A blasting explosive for hard rock made by the British South African Explosives Co. It contains less nitroglycerine than blasting gelatine, and is intended to husband stocks of glycerine (“Arms and Explosives,” 1916, p. 81).

Gelatine =VENDER= is a Swiss explosive consisting of dinitro-acetin gelatinised with a little collodion cotton and mixed with ammonium nitrate.

=VICTOR POWDER= was a coal-mine explosive made by Nobel’s Explosives Co. There were two varieties at one time on the Permitted List--

No. 2. Date of Permit 13-5-14 15-1-15 Ammonium nitrate 68 67 Potassium chloride 14·5 -- Sodium chloride -- 15 Nitroglycerine 8·5 9 Wood meal 9 9

Limit charge 18 16 Power (swing of ballistic pendulum) 2·96” 2·63”

=VICTORITE.=--A coal-mine explosive of the Carbonite type made by Nobel’s Explosives Co. It was on the old Permitted List.

=VIEILLE POWDER.= See Poudre =B=.

=VIGORIT.= See =MONACHIT=.

=VIGORITE= is a name that has been given to several explosives in the past. One of these, manufactured in California in the ’seventies of the last century, contained potassium chlorate and nitroglycerine, and consequently was decidedly dangerous. It gave rise to a serious accident on the Grand Trunk Railway.

The Atlas Powder Co. in America manufacture a series of coal-mine explosives under this name. They are nitroglycerine explosives.

=VIKING POWDER= is a coal-mine explosive made by Nobel’s Explosives Co. There are two varieties on the Permitted List--

No. 1. No. 2. Date of Permit 15-1-15 15-1-15 Ammonium nitrate 59 67 Nitroglycerine 10 8·5 Wood meal 10 8·5 Sodium chloride 20 15 Magnesium carbonate 1 1

Limit charge 26 18 oz. Power (swing of ballistic pendulum) 2·44” 2·59”

This explosive is used extensively.

=VIRITE.=--A coal-mine explosive made by the Nitrate Explosives Co. which was on the old Permitted List--

Ammonium nitrate 38 Potassium nitrate 35·5 Sulphur 4·5 Charcoal 11·5 Ammonium oxalate 10·5

There have been other explosives of the same name.

=VULCAN POWDER= is a brand of American dynamite.

=W.A.= See Lafflin and Rand.

=WALLONITE.=--A Belgian blasting and coal-mine explosive--

II. III.

Ammonium nitrate 90 70 70 Sodium nitrate -- 20 25 Nitrated resin 10 10 5

Charge limite 50 125 600 g.

=*WALSRODE SHOT-GUN POWDER= was a gelatinised 28-grain dense powder, which the German makers endeavoured to introduce into England in the ’nineties, but it gave high pressures. A powder of this name is still used in Germany, however, but it is a 35-grain powder in the form of small grains, greyish white and greyish green in colour.