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EXPLOSIVE COTTON -tWe have re ceived he fd lowing nate from Mir George 4. Andrews, one of the best practical chemists in this city. giving the mode pursued bv him in mannfac nring the explosive cotton recently discovered in Germany II will be that the process of Mir A. differs from the re. cipe recently pebsIed. We have tried the cotton Thus prepared and have found To act precisely lne gunpowder

 Perhaps 1t may be proper 10 add that the cotton thus prepared IS more dangerous than ordinary gum powder, as il will expude by exposing 10 too great neal when drying by n stove. The nature ol gum powder IS 20 well knewn that all who 1t very careful The appearance ol the prepared cotton is SD smilar io ihe article in s state that persons are very apt tO become careless in handling it, Hence we should not be surprised to hear of serious accidents from ills use; we hope those hin,s which we throw out by why of caution wall induce all who use the explosive article To be duly careful. The followng is Mir. Anderson's recipe :-Ballimore American.

 GUN COTTON After repeated experiments in relation 10 'his recently discovered ErplosiUe having prepared fl wth acids of various strengths. have tom he resulta oblained arrived al this conclusion VIZ; mat the hthic acid employed must be in the moa concentrated form. The acid used by me most successfully was of Ihe specific gravity .b22. This was mixed with an equal quantity, (by nleasure) of Commercial Sulphurlc Acid. specific gravity, ,S34 Having washed the cotton in weak alkaline solu. ton, and subsequently in pure water, It was dried and then immersed for one minute in lhe above men toned mixture of Nitric and Sulphuric Acid. Hay- ing pressed from The cotton as much as possible of the acid absorbed by il, (hetween plates of glass> washed il repeatedly in waiter, until no acid taste re- mained then having separated the 6bres, it was dred with gentle heat

 Cotton thus prepared resembles much in appear ance wool of fine quality, and leavss no residium when burnt upon paper.

 Having loaded pistol with tUo grains of the above Il ball was projected with such force as to pass through inch board, buryng itself three ourlhs of an inch deep Tn another; while with the same pistol. loaded with sta grains of ordinary gunpO0der, the ba II barely entered the first board.

 N. R. To insure success, the wasbings in both in- stances must be repeated frequently, free il in le

 first place from the akai. and in the latter from the | acids. GEO. W. ANDREWS | Baltmqre, Nov. 19, 1916.