![]() It was the Swedish chemist, Alfred Nobel, famous for using nitroglycerin to make “Dynamite,” that first investigated a mixture of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose as a small arms smokeless propellant. The two main components of Unique powder, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin, were both invented in the 1840s. It is now made and offered by Alliant Powder, a division of the huge company, ATK (Alliant Techsystems), that also controls such well-known names as Bushnell, Weaver, Federal, Speer CCI, RCBS, Savage, and others. When Hercules Powder Company split from DuPont in 1912, Unique was one of the new company’s premier propellants and it has remained available to the present day. Smokeless powder development was centralized in the Dupont company after DuPont absorbed Laflin and Rand and Unique came out of that development. Going back to the beginning of the 20th century, Unique gunpowder is one of those good things. Good things last a long time in the shooting sports arena. ![]() This post describes the characteristics, applications, and tips for measurement of Alliant Unique gunpowder.
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