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GELIGNITE

Gelignite, blasting gelatin or jelly is an explosive containing collodion-cotton, (a type of nitrocellulose or gun cotton), dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol then mixed together with wood pulp and saltpetre.

Gelignite was invented in 1875 by Alfred Nobel. Unlike dynamite, gelignite will not suffer from the problem of sweating, (the leaking of nitroglycerine from the dynamite tube). Gelignites' build makes it easily moldable and safe to handle,  (as long as it is not near anything that will make it explode). As one of the most cheapest explosives, it burns slowly and will not explode without a detonator.

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