Wednesday 20 February 2008

THE DYNAMITE


Alfred Nobel was a swede chemist that found the important prizes called Nobel.In 1867 he invented the dynamite.Also, in this year be born a important scientific called Marie Curie and other scientific called Michael Faraday die.

His investigation started later of the death of him brother because an explosion of nitroglycerine.He wanted to control these explosions.This way he created the dynamite, a plastic explosive that result of absorb the nitroglycerine on a porous material.

The dynamite remplaced at the nitroglycerine in demolitions and at the mining.Also, it was used for stuffing of the projectiles of artillery and stuffing of charge of military demolitions.Now, the dynamite was remplaced for anothers explosives because there were problems with its storage and with the production of nitroglycerine for its manufacture.

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