Faversham powder

Accdg to Ramsey Weston (Ref 4), Faver sham Powder was practically flameless, a property which was achieved by impregnating the components with the so-called Trench s Fire Extinguishing Compound which consisted of sawdust treated with solns of Amm sulfate or sulfamide. This gave for Faversham Powder AN 85, DNB 10 Trench s Compound 5%... 

Faversham Powder—another type of ammonium nitrate explosive, without nitroglycerine, containing, for instance, 90% ammonium nitrate and 10% TNT. 

Faversham Powders. Several of the Brit Favier type permissible expls, mfd by the Cotton Powder Co Lad in Kent, England, initially under the formula AN 85, DNB 11, NH4C1 1.5, NaCl 2.5%. This was later... 

Faversham powder is a mixed explosive permitted and much used in coal mines in England. It is ammonium nitrate 47.5 per cent, potassium nitrate 24 per cent, ammonium chloride 18.5 per cent and T.N.T. 10 per cent. 

The following are explosives containing ammonium nitrate Ammoncarbonite, Wetterfulmenite, Chromammonite, Roburite, Dahmenite, Dorfite, Bellite, Securite, Trench s flameless explosive, Faversham powder, Ammonite, Electronite, Amvis, etc. 

Faversham powder, 103, 113 Favierite, 113 Feldmann s apparatus, 39 Ferric ferrocyanide, 82 Ferricyanide, potassium, 81 Ferrocyanides, 79-82 from coal-gas, 79 from sulphocyanide, 75 potassium, 79 sodium, 79 Ferrodur, 67 Ferrosilicon, 104... 

Faversham Powder.—One of the explosives on the permitted list (coal mines) is extensively used, and is manufactured by the Cotton Powder Co. Ltd. at Faversham. It is composed of tri-nitro-toluol 11 parts, ammonium nitrate 93 parts, and moisture 1 part. This explosive must be used only when contained in a case of an alloy of lead, tin, zinc, and antimony thoroughly waterproof it must be used only with a detonator or electric detonator of not less strength than that known as No. 6. 

Oare Powders. Expls manufd in 1898 by the Cotton Powder Co, Ltd, of Faversham (Kent), Engl. They originally contained, as the main ingredients, Chile saltpeter (Na nitrate) and Dinitrobenzene, but later the latter ingredient was replaced by TNT Ref Daniel (1902), 587... 

Tonite (Fulmicoton nitre de Faversham in Fr). A series of Brit commercial blasting expls manufd by the Cotton Powder Co, Ltd at Faversham from 1874 thru the early 20th century... 

At the works of the Cotton-Powder Company Limited, at Faversham, the fulminate is mixed wet with a very finely ground mixture of gim-cotton and chlorate of potash, in about the proportions of 6 parts fulminate, 1 part gun-cotton, and 1 part chlorate. The water in which the fulminate is usually stored is first drained off, and replaced by displacement by methyl-alcohol. While the fulminate is moist with alcohol, the gim-cotton and chlorate mixture is added, and well mixed with it. This mixture is then distributed in the detonators standing in a finme, and each detonator is put separately into a machine for the purpose of pressing the paste into the detonator shell. 

V. 1784-1789. Compact black powder grains were obtained by pressing the cakes with screw presses before corning at Faversham, England. 

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