Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel, a chemist from Sweden, in 1867. Alfred’s father ran a company that made explosives. One of these explosives was “nitroglycerin”. Nitroglycerin was used to blast rock in mines, to make tunnels, or to flatten ground for construction. It was very unstable, though …
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