NEW HIGH EXPLOSIVE.
MORE POWERFUL THAN T.N.T. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) PASADENA (Cat.), May 27. A *ew explosive, of which radium is an important ingredient, was reported by the military professors of the Californian Institute of Technology to have shown itself 30 per cent more powerful than T.N.T. and 15 per cent more effective than commercial dynamite in official tests which were conducted to-day. The inventor is Captain Zimmer, of Los Angeles.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 7
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NEW HIGH EXPLOSIVE.
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 7
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