Sitton (19) used a large number of variously formulated waxes on pecan and found that the most successful from the standpoint of graft survival was one composed of 10 parts rosin, 2 parts beeswax, and 1 part filler such as kieselguhr, talc, or aluminum powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

The following was the analysis of a dried sample of kieselguhr: -- Silica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

If we take the volume of the kieselguhr as .1, we find from above formula that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Ordinary dynamite consists of a mixture of 75 per cent. of nitro-glycerine and 25 per cent. of kieselguhr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Dynamite, efficiency of, 118. frozen dynamite, 116. gelatine dynamite, 119. properties of kieselguhr dynamite, 116.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

~ -- The material generally consists of 75 per cent. of nitro-glycerine and 25 per cent. of the infusorial earth kieselguhr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Moisture, 0.92 per cent.; kieselguhr, 26.15 per cent.; and nitro - glycerine, 72.93 per cent., the last being obtained by difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Among the porous substances used is kieselguhr, a silicious earth which consists chiefly of the skeletons of various species of diatoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel, Alfred Bernhard] Reference

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a product in which the explosion-prone nitroglycerin is curbed by being absorbed in kieselguhr, a porous soil rich in shells of diatoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine for 1998 - Press Release] Reference

For antiseptic purposes it has been prepared as "bromum solidificatum," which consists of kieselguhr or similar substance impregnated with about 75\% of its weight of bromine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Nitro-glycerine is decomposed differently if it is ignited as dynamite (i.e., kieselguhr dynamite), and if the gases are allowed to escape freely under a pressure nearly equal to that of the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

The Rhenish dynamite, considerably used in the mines of Cornwall, is composed of 70 parts of a solution of 2 to 3 per cent. of naphthalene in nitro-glycerine, 3 parts of chalk, 7 parts of sulphate of barium, and 20 of kieselguhr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

With regard to the heating of the various buildings in the winter, steam pipes only should be used, and should be brought from a boiler-house outside the danger area, and should be covered with kieselguhr or fossil meal and tarred canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

The kieselguhr having been dried, crushed, and sifted, should be packed away in bags, and care should be taken that it does not again absorb moisture, as if it contains anything above about five-tenths per cent. of water it will cause the dynamite made with it to exude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

It is composed of an excessively explosive oil named nitro-glycerine (itself a compound), and an earth called kieselguhr.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Track of the Troops] Reference

In 1866 he perfected a combination of nitroglycerine and kieselguhr, a diatomaceous earth, to which he gave the name dynamite.    From Wordnik.com.  [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference

This gives the weight of the kieselguhr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference