Nitrolite is an older form of powdery high explosive with an ammonium nitrate base, mixed with a smaller amount of TNT and nitroglycerin etc.[1][2][3][4] It is used for mining, construction as well as military purposes. During World War II it came to be a budget replacement for more expensive TNT.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "nitrolit". saob.se. 1929. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  2. 1 2 Thorsson, Nils (1975). Historik och kartläggning av vapenmateriel för flygplan (in Swedish). Sweden. p. 74.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Svensk militär explosivämnesutveckling i modern tid – från Nobel till kvävekluster, Del I: intill ca 1980" (PDF). Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift. Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien (Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences): 41. 1944. booklet 5, 2005.
  4. ↑ AMORDLISTA, Preliminär ammunitionsordlista (in Swedish) (1979 ed.). Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish Defence Materiel Administration. 1979. p. 49.
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