Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — Chemical Item. [ARTICLE]

Chemical Item.

Red phosphorus combines with chlorate of potash to make an explosive of great violence. The London Lancet thinks that if this fact of chemistry had been more generally known it might have saved the disagreeable consequences which recently followed when a man who had not studied chemistry put his safety matches into the same same pocket with his throat lozenges.