A NEW EXPLOSIVE
EA.DIUM AN INGREDIENT United Tress Association—By Electric Tolejrapli—Copyright. (Received 28th May, 10 a.m.) PASADENA, 27th May. A new explosive, of which radium is an important ingredient, was reported by tho military professors of the California 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 conducted on Saturday. Tfce inventor is Captain Zimmer, of Los Angeles.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 9
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75A NEW EXPLOSIVE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 9
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