Romperit

Romperit was a safe-to-handle , cartridged gelatinous explosive that was sold by the Sprengstoffverkaufsgesellschaft Berlin. It was made in two types:

• Romperit : 80% ammonium nitrate , 15% aromatic nitro compounds, 4% nitroglycerin
• Gelatine romperite : 50% ammonium nitrate , 30% dinitrochlorohydrin , nitroglycol ; waterproof and freeze-proof

Romperit blasting culture method

The first attempts to use the energy of explosives in agriculture were made in Germany as early as 1876. But the basis for this was only laid with Romperit. In particular, the privy councilor Gustav Aufschläger and the director of the Dresden dynamite factory, E. Boldt, laid the foundation in the 1920s to use different blasting methods to create cultivated soil:

• Demolition blasting (e.g. of moors, ponds)
• Loosening blasts (e.g. from chalk and marl soils)
• Extraction blasting (for extraction of sand, gravel, clay, chalk)
• Fountain blasting (for creating wells)
• Stump blasts
• Blastings

literature

• Explosives Sales Company: The Romperit Explosive Culture Process . 4th edition. Explosives sales company mbH, Berlin W9 1934.

Web links

• Lexicon of German Explosive Mixtures (accessed on May 14, 2020)
• Work aid usage-specific contamination spectra (accessed on May 14, 2020)