Favier explosives = ammonium

FA = furfuryl alcohol FA/AN = mixture furfuryl alcohol/ani-line/hydrazine 46/47/7 face burning 140 Fackel = flare 142 factices = Mock explosives 218 fallhammer 140 185 farine de guar = guar gum 158 Favier explosives = ammonium nitrate explosives (France Belgium now obsolete) Federzugmaschine - blasting machines 37... 

Types of explosives containing large amounts of ammonium nitrate. The oldest of these explosives (see Roburit, Favier Explosives) contain no nitroglycerine they consist of ammonium nitrate, often with some potassium nitrate, and aromatic di- and trinitro prod-nets. Their disadvantages are low sensitiveness and defective propagation. Later improved ammonium nitrate explosives contain small amounts of nitroglycerine. The nitroglycerine permeates the pulverent... 

Quite lately a patent has been taken out for a mixture of nitro- naphthalene or di-nitro-benzene with ammonium nitrate, and consists in using a solvent for one or other or both of the ingredients, effected in a wet state, and then evaporating off the solvent, care being taken not to melt the hydrocarbon. In this way a more intimate mixture is ensured between the particles of the components, and the explosive thus prepared can be fired by a small detonator, viz, by 0.54 grms. of fulminate. Favier s explosive also contains mono-nitro-naphthalene (8.5 parts), together with 91.5 parts of nitrate of ammonia. This explosive is made in England by the Miners Safety Explosive Co. A variety of roburite contains chloro-nitro-naphthalene. Romit consists of 100 parts ammonium nitrate and 7 parts potassium chlorate mixed with a solution of 1 part nitro-naphthalene and 2 parts rectified paraffin oil. 

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