Gel-Coalites

Bebie(Ref 3) gives two examples a)NG 62.5, NC 2.5, Na nitrate 27.0 and wood pulp 8.0% and b) NG 36, NC 2, vegetable meal 2, nitrates and/or perchlorates 52 nitro-compoundsfof toluene, naphthalene or di phenylamine) 8%. Bebie also cites Gel-Coalites as a brand of gelatinous permissible expls manufd by the Atlas Powder Co of Wilmington, Del, but does not give their composns Refs 1)C.E.Munroe C.Hall, USBurMines Bull 80(1915) 2)Davis(l943),344-5 3)Bebie (1943), 73-4... 

R, 8-S) and Peerless No 2 also two gelatinous expls Gel-Coalite Z Gel-Coalite No 3... 

Gel-Coalites. See under American Dynamites, Gelatinized A167-L... 

Apcol Coalite Gel-Coalite Atlas Powder Co., Wilmington, Del. 

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