| 1. | Firing Lyddite shells, or using trench mortars, was tried.
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| 2. | The British started replacing lyddite with TNT in 1907.
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| 3. | Lyddite presented a major safety problem because it reacted dangerously with metal bases.
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| 4. | Hence it was not simply a case of switching existing filling machinery from Lyddite to Amatol.
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| 5. | Its original shell was Lyddite explosive.
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| 6. | Shell filling began on 11 November 1916, with both Lyddite and Amatol explosives being used in production.
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| 7. | After surviving gunfire from in which shells filled with lyddite were tested, she was towed back to Portsmouth.
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| 8. | Experiments with high explosives carried out on the shingle wastes around 1888 led to the invention of the explosive Lyddite.
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| 9. | They were replaced by " common lyddite " shells in the late 1890s but some stocks remained as late as 1914.
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| 10. | Proper detonation of a lyddite shell would show black to grey smoke, or white from the steam of a water detonation.
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