im sure everyone has seen sticks on dynamite in movies and history documentaries. they even used it in myth-busters a few times i think, but how much force would it really take to set it off?
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Nitroglycerin is a demon high explosive. Know how unstable it is in old cartoons? The real stuff is **worse**.
In the 19th century it was the only high explosive available. High explosives were extremely useful in mining to shatter rock. Gunpowder is a low explosive. The difference being akin to patting someone on the cheek and a hard slap.
So nitro is so dangerous and killed so many people it gets banned. Dynamite gets invented and it’s a godsend. Nitroglycerin but actually safe to use. Mostly harmless anyway. It does have a tendency to sweat pure nitro…
Thing is… The active ingredient in dynamite is still nitro and nitro is illegal therefore dynamite is illegal…
So in a western story if people are acting weird about dynamite this is why.
Modern day mining uses anfo which is a mixture of ammonium nitrate (fertilizer) and fuel oil (diesel). Its dirt cheap and well behaved.
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