242 Onthe Oxygenated Muriat of Potash. 
seeem not to agree with this assertion: for all the 
above substances that I tried, except ether, deto- 
nated either more or less on rubbing them briskly 
in a stone-ware mortar; some of them required to 
be intimately mixed, as sugar and gum; but others 
produced very loud reports, as when fixed and es- 
sential oils were used, 
