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Discovered German Secret Weapon in WWII

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http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/09/05/germans_designed_exploding_chocolate_bar/

Wow - if they’d only used it!!

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i would be dead! im a chocolate addict! :lol:
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wonder how long it took them to come up with the chocolate bomb after the pea bomb sat on a shelf

(yeah i know it was wartime and everyone ate what they could, but peas? i’d be safe for a lifetime from that one)
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It’s hard to believe that powder can still be good after 70+ years!

That’s actually part of the problem.ï¿½ Â If I’m not mistaken, certain types of explosives can destabilize over time and become more sensitive to shock.ï¿½ Â I think this is particularly the case with nitrocellulose explosives, whose nitroglycerin component apparently re-liquifies and seeps out of the solid matrix when it gets too old.ï¿½ Â It’s sort of an extreme example of the concept of the “best before” date that is more ordinarily applied to packaged foods and pharmaceutical products.

This is true. The picric acid used in hand grenades still during WWII reacts with the metal casing of the grenade to form picrate salt, which is highly unstable.

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I like the part of the story which quotes a certain Gary Campbell as saying that it was “entirely feasible” that a large sea creature disabled the submarine. Given that Mr. Campbell is said by the story to be “the keeper of the Official Sightings Register of the Loch Ness Monster,” it’s unlikely that he’d dismiss accounts about marine monsters as being nonsensical tall tales from sailors who’d consumed one glass too many at the local tavern.

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