Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, for mining, by doing what the meme says (I don’t know what “fossilized algae” refers to, but it makes the nitro not go boom, when it really wants to boom).
After seeing what it was eventually used for (bombs. Lots and lots of bombs) he regretted ever making it.
He set up the Nobel Peace Prize as a result, to try and even the scales a bit, so to speak
Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated in an absorbent inert substance like kieselguhr (diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to handle, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as “dynamite”.
Diatomaceous earth consists of the fossilized remains of diatoms, a type of hard-shelled microalgae.
Dieterlan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, for mining, by doing what the meme says (I don’t know what “fossilized algae” refers to, but it makes the nitro not go boom, when it really wants to boom). After seeing what it was eventually used for (bombs. Lots and lots of bombs) he regretted ever making it. He set up the Nobel Peace Prize as a result, to try and even the scales a bit, so to speak
bogdugg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Looked it up:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel#Nobel_Prize
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ooh. Diatomaceous earth is also the best safest healthiest most humane method of fending off bed bugs.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m all for being humane but I would stab a bed bug with a pin and yell “die, fucker”. Same goes for mosquitos, ticks and fleas.
Isn’t diotemacious earth cancer causing if you breath it in?
Quereller@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Not when you mix it with nitroglycerin.