Fellow Listers
I wonder if some one can tell me what the fumes of dynamite smell like!!!!
I should explain that in my researching I have come across a number of wellsinker's death's from suffocation, due to dynamite fumes, in wells in the period 1880-1884.
I have recorded dynamite exploding from a distance, but on examining the site minuets later can not recollect any particular odour!! {in a quarry}.
My interest is WHY if the smell is strong, would the wellsinker return too soon after the charge went off!!!!!!!
I have faint memories that Dynamite Sticks had the faint odour of Marzipan!!!!!
Can anyone please advise me re' the above.
Take Care.
Roger B Bradford of South Australia
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