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  Gelignite decay (donald haarmann)
Lloyd dismisses as wholly improbable that pouring boiling water into the outer chamber of a warming pan should cause an explosion of well purified gelignite, or, seeing that the lid of the warming-pan was on, that a spark should have caused the initial decomposition.
He arrives at the conclusion that the explosive itself was unstable, and that the hot water raised it to a sufficiently high temperature to determine its active decomposition.
The purity of gelignite is determined by the Abel heat test, and no discoloration of the starch-iodide paper should be produced, at a temperature of 160o F., in less than 10 minutes, if the explosive has, been well purified.
www.yarchive.net /explosives/gelignite_decay.html   (536 words)

  
 SAOIRSE32 :: Soloheadbeg ambush :: January :: 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In their planning, Treacy and the others were unsure of the size of the police contingent which would be guarding the gelignite and made preparations for various contingencies, including a guard of up to 12 RIC men.
One week later, with massive searches continuing in the area and the risk of the munitions being discovered at any time, Tom Carew (who was later to be made IO of the 3rd Brigade) decided to move the hoard to a safe arms dump.
The gelignite lay where Carew had hidden it by a stream in Golden Garden until November 1919, when it was retrieved and distributed as follows; one case to HQ South Tipperary Brigade, one case to Tipperary Town Battalion and one to the Rosegreen area.
saoirse32.blogsome.com /2005/01/22/soloheadbeg-ambush   (992 words)

  
 The Hindu : Kerala / Kozhikode News : Seizure of explosives: police make breakthrough
Investigating sleuths have traced the source of the purchaser of the gelignite sticks from an explosive manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu to a sub-agent in Kodungallur in Thrissur district.
Nearly 45 gelignite sticks were kept in the cloakroom in a carton having a label `Industries Explosives Limited Vellore' were seized from the cloak room after the police control room received a bomb threat over the phone from a public call office from Vellayil here on Sunday.
Intelligence officials said that the 45 gelignite sticks seized from the cloakroom if meticulously utilised were enough to explode a part of Kozhikode city.
www.hindu.com /2006/01/05/stories/2006010515270500.htm   (444 words)

  
 2002 Personal Account: Blasting Expertise
Gelignite was cheap and effective, and fortunately, we had George on our staff to help us use it.
Gelignite may burn when ignited, but will not explode unless prompted to do so by a detonator.
[sidebar] Gelignite is a relatively safe explosive mixture, composed of nitroglycerin absorbed into wood pulp (or guncotton) and sodium or potassium nitrate.
www.darwinawards.com /personal/personal2002-30.html   (402 words)

  
 Phoenix Publishing
The Volunteers had scouts posted it the military barracks in Tipperary town so that as soon as the gelignite was on the way the men in the ambush party would be alerted.
The gelignite was dumped in a ditch near "The Grove" on the Dundrum-Tipperary road.
In November 1921, the gelignite was retrieved and distributed as follows: one case for Headquarters (H.Q.) South Tipperary Brigade, one case for the Tipperary town Battalion and one case for the Rosegreen Battalion.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Gelignite’s service offering includes media relations, messaging consulting, strategic counsel, media training, research analyst relations, crisis management and trade show support.
www.emailwire.com /news/adv1911.shtml   (543 words)

  
 Gelignite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Non-English Usage: "Gelignite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.
"Gelignite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
"Gelignite" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /ge/gelignite.html   (470 words)

  
 The Hindu : Front Page : Explosives seized from KSRTC cloakroom
The police control room attached to the Office of the Kozhikode City Commissioner of Police received a phone call on Sunday from a public booth at Vellayil, a coastal area in Kozhikode city, threatening that a bomb had been planted at the KSRTC bus station.
Gelignite is an explosive mixture comprising nitro-glycerine, gun cotton, wood pulp and potassium nitrate.
Gelignite sticks had been used in the explosion at the Beypore fishing harbour in September 2005.
www.hindu.com /2006/01/03/stories/2006010308030100.htm   (479 words)

  
 Gelignite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gelignite, also known as Blasting gelatin, is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or gun cotton) dissolved in nitroglycerine and mixed with wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate.
Its composition makes it easily moldable, and safe to handle without protection, as long as it is not near anything capable of detonating it.
This page was last modified 01:19, 5 November 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gelignite   (158 words)

  
 Russell Street Bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On October 7, 1985, gelignite and detonators were stolen from the Tryconnel Mine at Blackwood.
gelignite and detonators used in the construction of the bomb were of the same type as those stolen from Tryconnel Mine.
gelignite was found at Reed's house wrapped in newspaper containing fingerprints belonging to Rodney Minogue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Street_Bombing   (649 words)

  
 gelignite Consolidating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
false statement to obtain a passport and for possession of a pistol, ammunition and gelignite (a...
of the by-wash, charged with half a barrel of powder, and between 30 and 40 plugs of gelignite...
These cases were filled with dynamite, gelignite or other high explosive, together with iron slugs...
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 gelignite Incorporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gelignite is much better, but messier to work with.
The bombs - oil drums filled with gelignite or sometimes flammable gas and rubber tubes...
Following the invention of dynamite in 1867 and the development of gelignite and cordite...
g.3-incorporation.com /G/gelignite%20Incorporation.html   (482 words)

  
 The Redex run revisited - theage.com.au
Famous as the event where "Gelignite" Jack Murray from Bondi began his antics of blowing up outback dunnies, its legendary stories leave a lingering nostalgia among buffs for motoring of a more primitive era.
Then there was "Gelignite" Jack, driving a Chrysler and trying to win that section by any means.
Several other originals are competing in the re-run, but not "Gelignite" Jack, the Bondi taxi driver and garage owner who won 1954's Redex Trial in his Ford - he died in 1983.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/06/07/1054700440813.html   (861 words)

  
 The Hindu : Kerala News : Security of life under threat
Explosive experts have opined that if these gelignite sticks had been meticulously used, they were enough to blast a portion of the city itself.
Incidentally, the carton containing the gelignite sticks had been kept in the cloakroom on December 28 and the police recovered these explosives only after the control room received an anonymous call five days later threatening that a bomb had been planted in the KSRTC bus station.
It is also learnt that a few officers burned the newspaper, which was used for wrapping the explosives, thereby destroying a vital piece of evidence.
www.hindu.com /2006/01/07/stories/2006010712530300.htm   (627 words)

  
 The BMC 1800 Team
Aaltonen said he got stuck behind the man in front and did not risk overtaking on straight stretches because of the dust.
'Gelignite' Jack Murray wanted to waterski from the back of the liner S.S. Chusan on a 400 foot rope.
A message written in the sand saved 'Gelignite' Jack Murray and Evan Green spending an uncomfortable few hours stranded 50 miles from Mingary on what Jack described as a "stinking hot day." The front end of their BMC 1800 collapsed in the sand hills between Brachina and Mingary.
marathon68.homestead.com /Page5.html   (1051 words)

  
 garden railway - chap17
Now it came as a bit of a surprise to a lot of folks who had watched the development of Selbyville with interest that due to the unfortunate cremation of 300 pounds of Gelignite, this little town appeared to be a smoldering ruin.
So that when the high technology new cremation furnace managed to ignite the wooden crate and that in turn turned the Gelignite into past tense, the force of the explosion was directed by the block walls straight back out through the rear wall.
The fireball engulfed the stockyards and cheese factory, and badly singed the sand house, but since everyone normally at work was either at home with the flu or in the funeral cortege, not a bruise was left on a soul.
www.trainweb.org /toenailridge/chap17.html   (1577 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gelignite is a new Atlanta-based marketing communications firm dedicated to serving the needs of technology firms in the United States, Canada and worldwide.
The other Gelignite co-founders include Gregory Rose, vice president of account services; Daniel-Robert Gooch, vice president of strategic planning; and Gary Z. Linnen, director of event services.
The successful corporate launch and positioning of a new Atlanta-based medical technology firm from start-up status to that of a nationally recognized healthcare technology leader.
www.emailwire.com /news/adv1902.shtml   (506 words)

  
 Hundreds evacuated after explosives find
About 300 people were evacuated after removalists found gelignite in an elderly woman's back shed at Orange in central western NSW.
The removalists found four sticks of gelignite, detonators, fuses and gunpowder in a shed behind the woman's Spring Street home about 11.30am (AEST) on Tuesday.
The material was unstable because a gelignite stick had ruptured and was beginning to crystallise, police said.
news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=107759   (330 words)

  
 BMC Information Sheets
How would you like the responsibility for preparing "Gelignite" Jack Murray's Austin 1800 for the London - Sydney Marathon?  Mechanics at the famous B.M.C. Competitions Department at Abingdon, U.K., are now assembling the four "works" 1800's that will be driven by some of the world's best and toughest drivers.
He mapped the route on behalf of the four official BMC "works" entries.  All the "works" crews will be driving the new BMC 1800 Mark II.
Because of the non-stop nature of this trial, the three man crew will have to drive, navigate, sleep and eat in their car.  The car has been modified to provide maximum comfort for the crew and resembles a cross between the cockpit of a Boeing 707 jet and a bedroom.
marathon68.homestead.com /Page22.html   (1484 words)

  
 Amazon.com: gelignite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gelignite by William Leonard Marshall (Paperback - May 1988)
The gelignite gang by John Creasey (Unknown Binding - 1955)
a bit-a large supply of gelignite had been stolen, and everybody...
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=gelignite&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (415 words)

  
 ::: u.tv :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An electrician who stole 87 sticks of gelignite from the mine where he worked to supply to the Continuity IRA was given an eight years suspended jail sentence today,
He said that after his arrest Ryan admitted stealing the gelignite from the mine on seven occasions, at first taking only one stick but on the final two occasions stealing 20 sticks and then a box.
Det Supt Maguire said that Ryan led police to a hide on a small farm at Kilmacow in Co Kilkenny where the gelignite was hidden in a bin buried in the ground.
u.tv /newsroom/indepth.asp?id=7702   (582 words)

  
 TIME.com: "The Hour Has Come!" -- Jan. 30, 1939 -- Page 1
They had been made from batteries, alarm clocks and gelignite, a gelatin dynamite or "safe" explosive favored by British safecrackers.
Last week, however, they had enough evidence to convince them that the missing gelignite was not in the hands of yeggs but was being used by zealous Irish terrorists to write another bloody chapter in 700 years of strife between Britain and Ireland.
Day before the bombings the citizens of Eire were startled to find their principal streets plastered with a proclamation issued by the illegal, fanatically nationalist Irish Republican Army.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,760674,00.html   (746 words)

  
 LankaWeb News
Indicating that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was planning once again to start terrorist activities in Colombo, a member of the rebel group was caught red-handed transporting a large number of gelignite sticks to Colombo, police sources revealed.
Police said the suspected LTTE man was transporting the explosives concealed in a bag in a Peoplized Bus.
Police said Inspector Wasantha Perera suspected the bag and inspected it to find 87 gelignite sticks, an explosive the rebel group have used against civilian targets to kill unarmed civilians in the past.
www.lankaweb.com /news/items03/120803-1.html   (320 words)

  
 Amendments to the Roll of Honour
BOUCH, R.A. WO II The accidental explosion that killed him was as a result of unsafe weeping gelignite, which he and two others were transporting to a safe place for detonation.
CAHILL, M P Col/Sgt. The accidental explosion that killed him was a result of unsafe weeping gelignite, which he and two others were transporting to a safe place for detonation.
The accidental explosion which killed him was a result of unsafe weeping gelignite, which he and two others were transporting to a safe place for detonation.
members.tripod.com /~Rhodesian/amend.html   (1236 words)

  
 The Lanka Academic :: View topic - Navy arrests boat suspected of arms smuggling for Tamil rebe
It is very common in Sri Lanka and other Asian countries to use gelignite sticks to catch fish.
All they do is light up the gelignite and through it into the water.
The gelignite presumably was simply standard stock on the ship.
www.theacademic.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2698   (1568 words)

  
 Prospero Productions - The Gelignite Buccaneer (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is the story of the controversial life and times of Alan Robinson, Australia’s most infamous treasure hunter who ruthlessly plundered silver from the 17th century shipwrecks off the North West Coast of Australia.
Set in the 1960’s, this dramatised documentary includes boat chases on the high seas, clashes with the police, courtroom drama and imprisonment in a colourful adventure tale which ultimately ends in tragedy.
The ironic legacy of the Gelignite Buccaneer’s exploits led to Australia developing some of the earliest and best protective shipwreck legislation in the world.
www.prospero.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /productions/gelignite.htm   (152 words)

  
 Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For example, I might include an essay on a controversial subject such as whether or not pizza is a legitimate pie.
Or, I might write a personal essay about how gelignite can function as a trigger without a berilium shield.
(In a nutshell: gelignite is much better, but messier to work with).
home.earthlink.net /~bombacious/id5.html   (123 words)

  
 Security
POLICE at the Murunkan checkpoint on the Vavuniya-Mannar road yesterday took into custody 56 highly explosive gelignite sticks after searching a Mannar bound bus from Colombo, military sources said yesterday.
Police suspect the gelignite sticks were special explosives to be used against Security Forces in Mannar.
Police arrested three persons along with the 56 gelignite sticks.
www.dailynews.lk /2006/01/07/sec10.htm   (251 words)

  
 Sri Lanka WORLD:: Navy seizes vessel suspected of carrying weapons to Tamil Tiger rebels
The boat was intercepted off the coast of the Jaffna Peninsula, 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, said military spokesman Brig.
The navy confiscated 20 gelignite sticks and took five ethnic Tamils into custody, he said.
Gelignite is a type of dynamite used mostly in the construction and mining industries, but can also be used to blow up bridges and other structures.
www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2006/3/6123.html   (1046 words)

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