Saber Bob wrote:Jerry Pournelle, at one science fiction convention back in the 1980s, told us how he (when he was a teenager back in the 1940s) used that edition of the Britannica to create nitroglycerin, and luckily for him, noticed the warning that said the stuff was "extreamly hyperthermic"--he and his friend used over 50 pounds of dry ice to keep the stuff cool while "cooking" it before setting off a fe ounces of the stuff on a raft in the middle of a pond (setting it off w/ a .22 lr rifle round I believe)
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