Verona Chemical Company

From the pamphlet Tetra-Nitro-Aniline Flurscheim, Verona Chemical Company, sole licensed manufacturers for the United States, North Newark, New Jersey, 1917( ), p. 4. Giua, op. dt., p. 317, states that the force of TNA measured in the lead block is 420 compared with picric acid 297. 

TNA, 2,3,4,6-tetranitroaniline (41), is a detonator in explosives. The product and the process for its synthesis were invented by the German-British chemist Bernard J. Fliirscheim, who from 1905 had investigated nitroanilines. In 1913, he sold rights to his process to Verona Chemical Company, of Newark, New Jersey. Though the process was not then adopted, the development work enabled Verona to commence the manufacture of aryl amines. The original manufacturing process for TNA was similar to those employed... 

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