On Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:15:37 +0000, newshound wrote:

On 03/12/2019 11:07, Martin Brown wrote:


It generally just burns incredibly quickly unless confined or provoked
by impact when it may detonate. Basically it is sheets of gun cotton.

My late father trained people to blow up tank traps etc. for D-Day. He
had some lovely anecdotes about gun-cotton. (He never did say where he
learned the trade).

GC was one of my more outstandingly successful forays into the world of
explosives making way back when I was 13 or 14 and obsessed, along with
other boys my age, with such things. It certainly did burn fast:
WOOOOOFFF!! - and gone. Easy to see why it was manufactured in vast
quantities as a propellant for munitions 100+ years ago. Happy times.



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