Utah officials were forced to blow up a house in a controlled explosion after the homeowner found old dynamite. The Unified Fire Authority blew up a house in Holladay at 4 am on April 24 after the ...

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Nitroglycerin is very unsafe because it could blow up without warning. Nobel wanted to make nitroglycerin safer and more useful. He found that adding clay to nitroglycerin made a safer product, which ...