The Royal Navy resisted switching from Lyddite to Amatol for its shells because it considered Amatol was too hygroscopic ( water-absorbing ) to be suitable for use at sea, and instead used pure TNT as its high-explosive replacement for Lyddite.
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The Royal Navy resisted switching from Lyddite to Amatol for its shells because it considered Amatol was too hygroscopic ( water-absorbing ) to be suitable for use at sea, and instead used pure TNT as its high-explosive replacement for Lyddite.
43.
It fired a spherical cast-iron bomb " the size of a football " painted dirty white filled with Amatol ( identified by a painted green band ) or Ammonal ( identified by a painted pink band ) Hence the total fuzed weight with stick of 51 lb is an average.
44.
The bomb was usually filled with a mixture of 40 % amatol and 60 % TNT, but when used as an anti-shipping bomb it was filled with " Trialen 105 ", a mixture of 15 % RDX, 70 % TNT and 15 % aluminium powder.
45.
The same 278-gram BdZ 5127 fuse and 59-gram Amatol bursting charge was used for both types of projectile ( PzGr . 39-1 & PzGr . 39 / 43 ), requiring armoured targets of 30 mm or thicker to ignite after penetration for maximum behind-armour effects.
46.
RN in June 1915 began operational trials of the Type D depth charge, with a charge of TNT ( amatol, as TNT supplies became critical ) and a hydrostatic pistol, firing at either, and believed to be effective at a distance of; the Type D *, with a charge, was offered for smaller ships.
47.
Germany, at the start of the war, had an advantage over Britain in their ability to manufacture explosives inexpensively : they had pioneered mixing ammonium nitrate and TNT to create amatol, which was similar to pure TNT in effectiveness, and understood the Haber-Bosch process and applied it in plants to produce the necessary nitrogen compounds.
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A lighter 40-pound ( 18.14 kg ) shell with Amatol filling replaced the original 50-pound ( 22.68 kg ) Lyddite shell early in World War I Together with an increase in cordite propellant from 11 oz 7 drams to 14 oz 5 drams, this increased the maximum range from 4, 800 to.
49.
Amatol, a mixture of cheap ammonium nitrate and TNT ( initially " 40 / 60 " : 40 % ammonium nitrate and 60 % TNT for land shells and 80 / 20 from 1917 ) proved 27 % more powerful than pure TNT and was soon adopted as the preferred HE filling in World War I . TNT and Amatol were approximately 20 % less sensitive to shock and hence safer than lyddite, and Amatol 80 / 20 cost only 7d per pound to produce in 1917 compared to 1s 11d for lyddite and 1s 3d for TNT.
50.
Amatol, a mixture of cheap ammonium nitrate and TNT ( initially " 40 / 60 " : 40 % ammonium nitrate and 60 % TNT for land shells and 80 / 20 from 1917 ) proved 27 % more powerful than pure TNT and was soon adopted as the preferred HE filling in World War I . TNT and Amatol were approximately 20 % less sensitive to shock and hence safer than lyddite, and Amatol 80 / 20 cost only 7d per pound to produce in 1917 compared to 1s 11d for lyddite and 1s 3d for TNT.
