Pyrotole
Pyrotol was an explosive available after the First World War . It was prepared from leftover stocks of the US military , such as cordite and low-smoke powders . The explosives were usually used together with dynamite , the explosive effect of which was thereby significantly improved.
Because pyrotol was very cheap on the market, farmers often used it to remove tree stumps or clean up ditches. Production stopped in 1928 after Pyrotol killed 45 people, most of them children, during the Bath School Massacre in 1927 . Production would probably have stopped a short time later anyway, as the remaining stocks of the military were almost exhausted.
A chromium - aluminum- based catalyst is also used under the brand name Pyrotol , which is used in the petrochemical industry to crack the fraction with 6 to 9 carbon atoms (including a by-product from the production of ethylene ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Tobin T. Buhk: True Crime: Michigan. Stackpole Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-811-74510-9 , pp. 51-52.
- ↑ College Killers . RW Press, ISBN 978-1-909284-01-2 .
- ^ Heavy orders cut supply of pyrotol . In: Granite Falls Record of September 30, 1927.
- ↑ Alain Chauvel: Petrochemical Processes Editions OPHRYS, ISBN 978-2-710-81065-0 , p. 276.