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    The Dynamite

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    until this day. This invention is the Dynamite. Let me first introduce you to the inventor of the dynamite. The dynamite was invented by Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel in 1866. Let me now tell you how this dynamite affected the industrial era. It was created so it can be used in construction, mining and demolition. It was used to carve in the mountains in order to create railroads and

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    Essay On Dynamite

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    Beginnings of Dynamite The late 18th and the early 19th century saw the rise of the Industrial Revolution. The transcontinental railroad across the USA was being built; in Australia and California, gold-rushes were driving people crazy trying to get rich; in Seuz, a great canal was being dug through the earth; and in England, London’s famous Underground Railroad system was being built. For these engineering projects to be made possible—for all the blasting, tunneling, trenching, mining, and excavation

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    Invention Of Dynamite

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    Dynamite has helped humanity out for years in good way and negative ways as well. We haven’t really payed much attention on how useful has been to us. Dynamite is a high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically adding groups (from nitric acid) to toluene. At low temperatures, the mono nitrotoluenes are made, and as the reaction temperature is increased, the dynatron compounds are formed, until eventually TNT is formed. Who invented dynamite? The

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    Pros And Cons Of Dynamite

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    Films “As you go through life, you will meet a lot of people that do not like the same things that you do. This is a personal preference difference, and it's normal. But anybody who says that they don't like Napoleon Dynamite is a fucking sociopath asshole who needs to be put to the sword. These people do not understand humor, and they are worthless.” - Gamboh 2016 Film is my passion. I thoroughly enjoy watching and analyzing movies - finding the pros and cons. In film there are many different

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    “Boom goes the dynamite” is a popular saying. Some people like me wanted to go a little deeper and ask, who made dynamite and what makes dynamite go boom? Well i have the answer for both of the questions and the answers are ascanio sobrero and nitroglycerin. Our first run over is what is nitroglycerin? Nitroglycerin or nitro (NG) is a heavy, colorless, oily, Explosive liquid. Chemically, the substance is an organic nitrate compound rather than a nitro compound. Since the 1880’s, nitro or (NG)/nitroglycerin

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    The movie Napoleon Dynamite directed by Jared Hess and released June 11, 2004 is a comedy about an awkward teen that has trouble fitting in. Napoleon (Jon Heder) the main character, lives with his grandma until she gets into an accident and his life is immediately made worse when his uncle Rico (Jon Gries) who is stuck in his high school football “superstar” days knocks on their door and is there to keep an eye on Napoleon while his grandma is getting hospitalized. Napoleon has a red afro, wears

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    In Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004), the character known as Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is quite a unique fellow. His quirkiness and eccentricity are what make him as a character; they are the primary traits of his personality. Keep in mind, however, that he is not the only odd character in the film, but he has his own peerless way of defining himself separate from any other character(s). This effect is achieved through certain cinematic techniques that director Jared Hess utilizes in order

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    Mise-en-Scene in Napoleon Dynamite In Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004), the character known as Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is quite a unique fellow. His quirkiness and eccentricity are what make him as a character; they are the primary traits of his personality. Keep in mind, however, that he is not the only odd character in the film, but he has his own peerless way of defining himself separate from any other character(s). This effect is achieved through certain cinematic techniques that

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    Alfred Nobel was a chemist who lived from 1833 to 1896. Nobel was born on October 21 in Sweden, the fourth of eight children born to Immanuel and Andriette Nobel. Immanuel Nobel couldn’t find work in Sweden so he moved to Russia, leaving his family behind. Eventually he found work in a factory specializing in the production of explosives and at the age of 11 Alfred and the rest of his family joined him in Russia. According to the biography on the founder of the nobel prize on the nobel prizes webpage

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    Nobel discovered how to utilize the power contained within the nitroglycerin compound; however it was still a very volatile substance (Dynamite). Nobel knew there was a huge potential for such an explosive but he needed to figure out a way to make it safer. Nobel “worked 16 hours a day” to find out how to harness the power of this unstable destructive substance (Dynamite). In 1864 a large amount of nitroglycerin exploded accidentally at the factory where Nobel worked with the dangerous substance (Frost)

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