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 | | In contact with damp and easily oxidizable metals all the substances of the gun-cotton class are liable to a slight local action, but the colloid nature, and probably also the contained mineral jelly, protect cordite considerably in these circumstances. |
 | | It is now customary to examine specially ~or mercury, either by heating the explosive in contact with gold leaf~ or silver foil, or by burning the substance and examining the flame in the spectroscope. |
 | | Such a rise indicates internal oxidation or lecomposition of the explosive; it is accompanied by an evolu:ion of nitrogen dioxide, NOf, the depth of color of which is ioted through a side tube attached to the bulb. |
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