Why does dynamite sweat and why does it make it more dangerous when most explosives become more reactive as they dry?
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Dynamite consists of nitroglycerine absorbed in a stabilizer. Dynamite “sweating” is the nitroglycerine separating from the stabilizer. That’s not good, because nitroglycerine is extremely sensitive to pressure.
Sweating is a problem in a lot of explosives, with reactive ingredients leaking out of the mixture and forming crystals (fragile crystals that when broken produce enough kinetic energy to set off an explosion)
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