Trivia: Early Dynamite Used Peanuts as Ingredients

By Alex in Daily Trivia on Oct 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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