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THE history of the laboratory production of various forms of nitro-cellulose has been well stated by many chemists, and everything essential can be found either in their own researches or in the ordinary text-books. The practical outcome of such work has been the establishment of modes of manufacture for many purposes, but in the present instance it is proposed to deal entirely with the use of cellulose in one shape or another for explosives of any practicable kind. It is almost unnecessary to state here that every kind of propulsive explosive now used has cellulose as its basis, but it may not be superfluous to say that all military propulsive explosives have cotton for their basis as distinct from cellulose.
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The Use of Cotton for the Production of Explosives . Nature 95, 481–482 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095481a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095481a0