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[โ€“] PhictionalOne@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean the reason nuclear weapons are measured in megatonnes and so on is that it is actually megatonnes of TNT. And hence Its predecessor Dynamite.

So... we couldn't relate destructiveness without good ol' Alfred.

[โ€“] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

TNT has nothing to do with dynamite or Nobel. It was discovered years before dynamite was invented, however it wasn't used as an explosive at first. And dynamite is just a mostly stable preparation of nitroglycerin. Nobel didn't discover any new explosive compounds, he literally just mixed stuff with nitro.