Since cordite contained guncotton (nitrocellulose) and nitroglycerine, cartridges loaded with this formulation were often prefixed by nitro as a means of differentiation.
The prosecution case rested principally on admissions made by the six men in police custody, together with scientific evidence that indicated that two of the men had handled nitroglycerine.
Nitroglycerine is an essential component of many types of ammunition.
The defence argued that the tests used could not eliminate the possibility that some substance other than nitroglycerine was present and that further tests should have been made.
This nitroglycerine house was reconstructed last year, when opportunity was taken to raise some of the traverses in order to give better protection against a possible accident of this kind.
The nitroglycerine mixing houses are necessarily a dangerous point in the factory, but every possible precaution both in the layout and manner of working is taken to minimise risk.
I then said that it was scarcely credible that in that house the whole of this family could have been found with nitroglycerine under their fingernails.
What has happened to the oscilloscope readings suggesting the presence of nitroglycerine?
