Everything about Pyrotol totally explained
Pyrotol was an
explosive available for a time after
World War I. It was reprocessed from military surplus
cordite and
smokeless powder. Usually used in combination with
dynamite, it created an
incendiary blast. Since it was very inexpensive, it was often used by farmers to remove tree stumps and clear ditches. Production of pyrotol dwindled in the
1920s after the
Bath School disaster where the substance was used to blow up an
elementary school and kill 45 people, mostly children. It is likely that production would have dwindled soon anyway, as supplies of military surplus powders ran out.
Pyrotol is also the trademarked name of a
catalyst used in the
industrial production of
benzene through a process known as
pyrolysis. It is a proprietary
chromium-
alumina catalyst manufactured by the Houdry Group of Sud-Chemie Inc. in
Louisville,
Kentucky and licensed exclusively to
ABB Lummus Global. It is completely unrelated to the explosive pyrotol.
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