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[NIOSH nitroglycerine reference](https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0456.html)", "Check the exact manufacturer designation against its documentation before distinguishing dynamite from similarly packaged emulsions or other explosives.", "Treat gelatin-related names as a boundary requiring documentary interpretation rather than automatically excluding them from dynamite.", "Distinguish energetic material from a replica, empty wrapper or certified inert specimen using explicit evidence; appearance and missing accessories do not establish inertness." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity determination", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "suspected dynamite | documented dynamite | specialist-confirmed dynamite | excluded | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates a provisional recognition from a supported classification." }, { "name": "Manufacturer and product designation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Manufacturer, exact product name and applicable product document", "why_it_matters": "Connects the item to evidence specific to its formulation and packaging." }, { "name": "Documented formulation family", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-stated family | unknown | conflicting", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the agent from assigning one composition or condition rule to every dynamite product." }, { "name": "Represented physical unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "cartridge | package | lot | unidentified material", "why_it_matters": "Defines what observations and quantity statements actually cover." }, { "name": "Recorded quantity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Cartridge count and documented mass in kg, distinguishing net explosive mass from gross package mass", "why_it_matters": "Supports inventory reconciliation without requiring physical measurement of suspect material." }, { "name": "Lot and date evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Lot identifier and documented manufacture, receipt and review dates; 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explosives are found." ], "must_not": [ "Assist in making, obtaining, modifying or using dynamite outside licensed lawful work.", "Give any details of composition, preparation, initiation or placement.", "Handle, move or open old or deteriorated explosives.", "Help hide explosives from inspection or lawful accounting." ], "requires_human": [ "Any decision on blasting, disposal or transport of explosives, which belongs to licensed personnel." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Dynamite transformed mining and construction but has been used to kill and terrorize.", "Old stock becomes unstable and endangers people who find it." ], "affected_parties": [ "Workers in mining and construction", "Bystanders and communities", "Bomb disposal staff" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The licensed holder under national explosives law; storage and use are regulated by the authorities.", "master_systems": [ "National explosives licensing and tracing records" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Paper or plastic wrapped cylindrical sticks, often in boxes marked with explosive warning labels.", "Old sticks may be stained, sweating oily liquid or crystallized." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Accidental detonation causes death and destruction.", "Deteriorated sticks can become extremely sensitive to shock and heat.", "Fumes and contact cause headaches and poisoning." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Class 1 Explosives, United Nations.", "Directive 2014/28/EU on explosives for civil uses, European Union." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Dynamite is encountered in the history and regulated practice of blasting for mining, quarrying and civil engineering.", "It may also appear in industrial collections, historical records or discoveries of abandoned explosive materials.", "Identification and condition assessment of suspected items belong within qualified explosives management." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "meyer-kohler-homburg", "title": "Explosives - Wiley-VCH (Meyer, Köhler, Homburg)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Industrial compositions, density and detonation-velocity ranges, and the working distinction among guhr, straight, ammonia and gelatin dynamites." }, { "id": "un-tdg-model-regulations", "title": "Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regulations - United Nations", "url": "https://unece.org/transport/dangerous-goods", "what_it_supports": "Transport classification of dynamite-type blasting explosives as UN 0081, Explosive, blasting, Type A, Class 1.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "ime-glossary", "title": "Glossary of Commercial Explosives Industry Terms - Institute of Makers of Explosives", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US trade names and tests for straight, ammonia, gelatin, semi-gelatin, extra and permissible dynamite, plus weight strength and fume class." }, { "id": "atf-27cfr555", "title": "27 CFR Part 555, Commerce in Explosives - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US legal treatment of dynamite as a high explosive requiring licences, approved magazines and transaction records." }, { "id": "wikidata-q161498", "title": "dynamite (Q161498) - Wikidata", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161498", "what_it_supports": "Stable catalogue identifier for the substance class.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q80728: dynamite", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80728", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Dynamite", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dynamite-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Dynamite identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish whether the represented material belongs to this registry entry and which product-specific evidence applies.", "rationale": "Dynamite names and cartridge appearance cannot independently establish composition, identity or inertness.", "layers": [ { "id": "product-identification", "name": "Product identification", "description": "Connect markings and claims to a supported dynamite designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-dynamite-designation", "name": "Supported dynamite designation", "description": "Record the exact claimed identity, its evidence and any conflicting identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manufacturer record, label record or qualified assessment identifies this material as dynamite?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-dynamite-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Is the designation a verified product identity, a historical name or an unsupported description?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-dynamite-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adjacent-explosive-boundaries", "name": "Adjacent explosive boundaries", "description": "Resolve ambiguity with other explosives, related names and non-energetic representations.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-boundary-evidence", "name": "Classification boundary evidence", "description": "Keep uncertain family membership explicit without inventing registry subdivisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documentation distinguishes this product from another explosive sold in similar packaging?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-boundary-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does a gelatin-related or historical designation belong within this entry under the registry's intended definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-boundary-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "If inertness is claimed, which assessment or certificate supports that claim for this exact item?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "classification-boundary-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cartridges-packages-and-lots", "name": "Cartridges, packages and lots", "description": "Define the physical material represented and preserve its inventory identity.", "rationale": "A package record, individual cartridge observation and lot-level assessment have different coverage.", "layers": [ { "id": "material-extent", "name": "Material extent", "description": "Identify the unit being modelled and the basis of its quantity.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-explosive-quantity", "name": "Bounded explosive quantity", "description": "Record counts and masses from existing evidence with explicit unit boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record represent one cartridge, a package, an entire lot or material of unknown extent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-explosive-quantity-q01" }, { "text": "What recorded count or mass applies, and does the mass describe explosive contents or the gross package?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-explosive-quantity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "lot-continuity", "name": "Lot continuity", "description": "Track whether material retains a reliable connection to its original identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "markings-and-reconciliation", "name": "Markings and reconciliation", "description": "Connect cartridges and packages to lot evidence while preserving discrepancies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which existing records connect these cartridges or packages to a manufacturer and lot?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "markings-and-reconciliation-q01" }, { "text": "Do recorded receipts, transfers and dispositions account for the current inventory, or is a discrepancy unresolved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "markings-and-reconciliation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-hazard-evidence", "name": "Condition and hazard evidence", "description": "Represent reported anomalies, historical uncertainty and the limits of condition assessments.", "rationale": "Dynamite condition decisions require product-specific evidence; apparent intactness cannot provide a general clearance.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-condition", "name": "Reported condition", "description": "Capture existing observations without directing inspection, sampling or manipulation.", "findings": [ { "id": "cartridge-condition-observations", "name": "Cartridge condition observations", "description": "Separate reported wrapper damage, staining, liquid or other anomalies from professional interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What anomalies have already been reported, by whom, when and for which cartridges or packages?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cartridge-condition-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Has qualified personnel assessed the reported condition, and what restrictions or uncertainties did they record?", "kind": "action", "id": "cartridge-condition-observations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history-and-document-applicability", "name": "History and document applicability", "description": "Connect known age and storage history to the correct product hazard information.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-evidence-coverage", "name": "Condition evidence coverage", "description": "Identify missing history and determine whether referenced guidance applies to this material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which manufacture dates and storage-history records are documented, and where are the gaps?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which current or historically applicable manufacturer hazard document covers this exact product?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "condition-evidence-coverage-q02" }, { "text": "Does the assessment cover the whole lot or only specifically identified material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "condition-evidence-coverage-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "controlled-custody-and-disposition", "name": "Controlled custody and disposition", "description": "Determine who is responsible for the material and what documented decisions may proceed.", "rationale": "Identification and inventory ownership do not by themselves establish permission or suitability for an explosives-related action.", "layers": [ { "id": "custody-and-authority", "name": "Custody and authority", "description": "Link the material to responsible parties and applicable decision authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-action-authorisation", "name": "Bounded action authorisation", "description": "Record the source, scope and validity of authorisation for a proposed action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is the recorded custodian, and which qualified party is responsible for explosives assessment?", "kind": "relation", "id": "bounded-action-authorisation-q01" }, { "text": "What jurisdiction-specific authority and product-specific assessment support the proposed action for this material?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-action-authorisation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restrictions-and-closure", "name": "Restrictions and closure", "description": "Preserve unresolved restrictions and require evidence before closing the 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for gassy coal mines", "Low-freezing / polar dynamite - nitrate-ester blends made to remain plastic in cold climates" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q161498", "note": "Item for dynamite as a class of blasting explosive." }, { "scheme": "UN number", "value_or_pattern": "UN 0081", "note": "Explosive, blasting, Type A; the usual assignment for nitroglycerin dynamites." }, { "scheme": "UN class / division", "value_or_pattern": "1.1D", "note": "Typical hazard division and compatibility group in transport documents; confirm on the specific product certificate." }, { "scheme": "Harmonized System", "value_or_pattern": "3602.00", "note": "Prepared explosives other than propellent powders; covers dynamite as a manufactured explosive, not a single chemical." }, { "scheme": "CAS", "value_or_pattern": "no single CAS for the mixture; principal ester 55-63-0 (nitroglycerin)", "note": "Dynamite is a formulated mixture, not a pure substance." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regulations (UN Committee of Experts / UNECE) - UN 0081, Class 1", "ADR, RID, IMDG Code and ICAO Technical Instructions - modal carriage of Class 1 blasting explosives", "27 CFR Part 555, Commerce in Explosives (U.S. ATF) and 18 U.S.C. Chapter 40 - licensing, storage and records", "29 CFR 1926 Subpart U (OSHA) - blasting and use of explosives in construction", "30 CFR Part 75 (MSHA) - permissible explosives in underground coal mines", "Directive 2014/28/EU on explosives for civil uses (European Union) - placing on the market and CE conformity", "EN 13631 series, Explosives for civil uses - High explosives (CEN) - type testing of civil high explosives", "IME Safety Library Publications (Institute of Makers of Explosives) - industry storage, transport and use practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Cartridge charges in boreholes for hard-rock mining, quarrying and civil tunnelling (historically the default packaged high explosive; now largely displaced by ANFO and emulsions).", "Priming or boosting less sensitive blasting agents that will not reliably take a detonator alone.", "Secondary blasting of boulders and demolition of masonry, concrete and timber structures.", "Avalanche-control charges in mountain-road and ski-area programmes.", "Historical agricultural stump, ditch and land-clearing shots, now tightly restricted in most jurisdictions.", "Military-engineer demolition training and work, increasingly superseded by plastic explosives; US \"military dynamite\" is a different RDX/TNT composition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "velocity of detonation", "typical_range": "2500-7500", "unit": "m/s" }, { "quantity": "bulk density", "typical_range": "0.8-1.6", "unit": "g/cm³" }, { "quantity": "cartridge diameter", "typical_range": "22-50", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "nitrate-ester content", "typical_range": "10-75", "unit": "mass %" }, { "quantity": "commercial weight-strength grade", "typical_range": "20-60", "unit": "%" }, { "quantity": "practical magazine life (undeteriorated)", "typical_range": "6-24", "unit": "months" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Exudation (\"sweating\") of liquid nitroglycerin from aged or poorly stored cartridges, leaving free ester that is far more shock-sensitive than the intact dynamite.", "Accidental initiation by impact, friction, fire or lightning during transport, thawing, tamping or loading.", "Frozen NG-rich cartridges: historically a major handling hazard when thawed over fires or by beating.", "Misfires that leave live cartridges in the muckpile, with later initiation by digging equipment.", "Toxic nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide in return air from oxygen-negative formulations in poorly ventilated headings.", "Occupational nitroglycerin vapour exposure causing severe headache and hypotension.", "Loss of sensitivity or failure to propagate after wetting (non-gelatin types) or chemical deterioration.", "Sympathetic detonation of adjacent holes or of stocks in a magazine.", "Theft and criminal reuse; dynamite remains a controlled high explosive wherever it is still sold." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "United States: commercial grades are named by type (straight, ammonia, gelatin, semi-gelatin, extra) and sold by \"weight strength\" percent; coal mines use \"permissible\" dynamite under MSHA.", "United Kingdom and much of the Commonwealth: \"gelignite\" is the everyday mining name for gelatin dynamite; coal uses \"permitted explosives\" in P-groups rather than the US \"permissible\" label.", "Nordic origin: dynamit as Nobel's kieselguhr product, with spränggelatin for blasting gelatin.", "Cold-climate trade historically used \"polar\" or other low-freezing dynamites (NG plus glycol dinitrates).", "In most contemporary mining jurisdictions NG dynamite has been displaced by ANFO, water gels and emulsions; remaining use is niche (priming, some demolition, a few hard-rock headings).", "US \"military dynamite\" (e.g. M1) is not nitroglycerin dynamite and should not be catalogued as the same article." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "neat nitroglycerin", "difference": "Dynamite is NG (or mixed nitrate ester) desensitized by absorption into a dope and packed as a solid cartridge; neat NG is a shock-sensitive liquid, not a commercial blasting cartridge." }, { "name": "ANFO", "difference": "ANFO is a blasting agent (ammonium nitrate prills plus fuel oil), not cap-sensitive; dynamite is a cap-sensitive high explosive and is often used only as a primer for ANFO." }, { "name": "emulsion / water-gel explosives", "difference": "These are aqueous oxidizer formulations, typically without nitrate esters; they may be packed in similar cartridges but are classified as blasting Type E/B products, not UN 0081 Type A dynamite." }, { "name": "TNT", "difference": "TNT is a melt-cast molecular CHNO explosive with no nitrate-ester headache and much lower impact sensitivity; dynamite is an absorbed-ester mixture initiated by an ordinary blasting cap." }, { "name": "black powder", "difference": "Black powder is a low explosive that deflagrates; dynamite detonates at kilometres per second and is used as a high explosive, not a propellant or fuse powder." }, { "name": "blasting gelatin", "difference": "Blasting gelatin is a colloidal NG-nitrocellulose gel without absorbent dope, denser and faster than cartridge dynamite; gelatin dynamite is that gel cut with an active dope." }, { "name": "C-4 / other military plastic explosives", "difference": "C-4 and similar compositions are RDX (or PETN) in a plastic binder, not nitroglycerin absorbates; they do not produce NG exudation or NG headache." }, { "name": "US military dynamite (M1 and related)", "difference": "Despite the name, M1 is an RDX/TNT/oil/starch mixture containing no nitroglycerin; commercial dynamite is defined by the absorbed nitrate ester." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of dynamite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend dynamite to include all gelatin dynamites, blasting gelatin and products historically marketed as military dynamite?", "Which manufacturer documents establish the formulation families and condition terminology needed for the products this catalogue will encounter?", "What evidence is sufficient to classify an unlabelled historical item as dynamite without physical intervention by the agent?", "Which jurisdiction-specific sources define the relevant custody, assessment and disposition authorities?", "What documentation is sufficient to establish inertness or completed disposition for individual cartridges versus an entire lot?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 27 } }