Trivia: Early Dynamite Used Peanuts as Ingredients

Posted by Alex in Daily Trivia on October 10, 2007 at 2:14 am


When dynamite was first produced, one of its ingredients was peanut.

Peanut oil was used to produce glycerol, an ingredient in nitroglycerin.



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