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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
effect upon rock before being consumed than the quicker and stronger powder used in fire-arms; but the tendency now is toward the use of substances of far greater rapidity of ignition, and greater expansion in the act of assuming the gaseous state, than even the strongest gunpowder. Among more than thirty patented compositions for blasting powder are the following ingredients. The specific combination in each case might be given would space permit. 1. Forms of carbon: — Burnt cork.Gambier. Charcoal.Brown coal. Lycopodium.Peat. White sugar.Logwood. Sawdust.Bark. Horse-dung.Carbolic acid. Starch of flour.Aloes. Petroleum products.Paraffine. Cutch.Fatty matters. Tannin.Resins. 2. Metallic salts, etc.:— Chl. potash.Carbonate of soda. Red sulph. arsenic.Nitrate of lead. Ferro-cyan. potassium.Ammoniacal salts. Nitrate of potassa.Nitrate of soda. Sulphur.Carbazotate of potash. Chloride of sodium.Azotate of potash. Cyanuret of zinc.Nitrate of iron. Barilla.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
Phosphates in variety. Carbonates in variety.Pitch. Caustic alkalies.Plants of various kinds. Charcoal.Plumbago. Chlorides in variety.Potash. Clay.Potatoes. Coal-tar.Resins. Copper. Salts ofSal-ammoniac. Copper scraps.Sand. Cream of tartar.Saponaria. Creosote.Sawdust of various woods. Cutch.Shells. Ground Decoctions of bark.Soap. Dextrine.Soda. Electric devices.Soda-ash. Fatty oils.Soot. Felt.Sponge. Fibrous materials.Starch. Flaxseed.Stones. Galvanizing devices.Sugar. Gambier.Sulphates in variety. Gas-tar.Sulphur. Glass. BrokenSumac. Glue.Tallow. Graphite.Tan-bark. Gravel.Tannin. Gums in variety.Tar. HayTerra-japonica. Horns. Internal portions ofTin. Salts of Hydrocarbons.Tobacco. Iron. Salts ofTurf. Iron scraps.Turmeric. Isinglass.Urine. Kerosene.Valonia. Lampblack.Vegetable dyes. Lead. Salts ofVoltaic devices. Leather scraps.White-lead. Leaves in variety.Wood-fiber. Lime. In′cu-ba-tor. A device for hatching eggs by artificial mean
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
spoken of for the place of Colonial Secretary of State, resolved never to leave pursuing the Colony of Rhode Island, until its Charter should be taken away. Hutchinson to Samuel Hood, 2 Sept. 1772. Remembrancer for 1776, II. 60. A few punished at Execution Dock, would be the only effectual preventive of any further at- Chap. XLVII.} 1772. June. tempt, wrote Hutchinson, who wished to see a beginnin of taking men prisoners, and carrying them directly to England. T. Hutchinson to Capt. Gambier, Boston, 30 June, 1772; in Hutchinson's Papers, III. 354, 355; and Remembrancer for 1776, II. 56. There now existed a statute authorizing such a procedure. Two months before, the King had assented to an Act for the better securing Dock-yards, ships and stores, which extended to the Colonies, made death the penalty for destroying even the oar of a cutter's boat, or the head of an empty cask belonging to the fleet, and subjected the accused to a trial in any county in Great Britain. Of