Why Did Guncotton Take 40 Years to Replace Gunpowder? — The History of Guncotton

The Explosive That Detonates From Nothing — The History of Azidoazide Azide

Kaboom

Why America Made Bullets by Dropping Molten Lead 200 Feet Down a Tower — Shot Towers

Dustrialize

Why Ammonium Nitrate Can Cause Massive Explosions

Grandpa Walter

Why Couldn't RDX Replace TNT? — The History of RDX

VEIN Material and VEIN

The Film That Burns Underwater — The History of Nitrocellulose

Blastline

The History of Lithium — Banned as a Poison, Now in Every Pocket on Earth

VEIN

The Explosive That Replaced TNT — The History of RDX

Blastline

The Chemical That Sets Ice on Fire — The History of Dioxygen Difluoride (FOOF)

Kaboom

What Was the Biggest Explosion Before the Atomic Bomb? — The History of Picric Acid

VEIN

The History of Borax — The Laundry Powder Born in Death Valley

Relics & Realms

25 Things Saloons ACTUALLY Had in the Wild West (Hollywood Got It All Wrong)

How the West Actually Was

The History of Osmium — The Heaviest Metal That Floats Away

Relics & Realms

How Could the Same Explosive Kill You and Save Your Heart? — The History Nitroglycerin

VEIN Material and VEIN

Why Did the Metal in Your Phone Kill Factory Workers? — The History of Beryllium

VEIN Material and VEIN

Why Can't You Put Out Thermite? — The History of Thermite

Kaboom and Dustrialize

Why Is TNT So Hard to Explode? — The History of TNT

VEIN

Why Does Fertilizer Keep Exploding? — The History of Ammonium Nitrate

VEIN

The Explosive That Replaced TNT — The History of RDX

Kaboom

The Metal That Explodes When It Touches Water — The History of Rubidium

Kaboom

Why Did the Nazis Fight So Hard for This Metal? — The History of Tungsten

VEIN Material