{"id":5452,"date":"2011-05-16T04:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:17:19","slug":"tnt-was-originally-used-as-a-yellow-dye-not-to-make-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/tnt-was-originally-used-as-a-yellow-dye-not-to-make-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"TNT was Originally Used as a Yellow Dye, Not to Make Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tnt-yellow-dye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5453\" title=\"tnt-yellow-dye\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tnt-yellow-dye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tnt-yellow-dye.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tnt-yellow-dye-340x377.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>TNT was originally created in 1863, not to be used as an explosive, but rather, was used as a yellow dye.\u00a0 Because it was so difficult to detonate and not very powerful compared to many other popular explosives of the day, it wasn\u2019t commonly used as an explosive until much later by German forces in 1902.\u00a0\u00a0 The Germans devised a clever way to exploit the particular property of TNT that makes it difficult to detonate.\u00a0 They would fill armor piercing artillery shells will TNT.\u00a0 These shells would then break through the armor of ships and the like and only explode after doing so.\u00a0 This created significantly more damage than shells containing compounds that detonated much more easily and were designed to explode on the surface. TNT is also relatively safe to handle, transport, and even can be melted without risk of it exploding, which particularly makes it easy to fill shells and other explosive devices with TNT.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"TNT Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/one-calorie-is-equivalent-to-one-gram-of-tnt-in-terms-of-energy\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting TNT Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## TNT was originally created in 1863, not to be used as an explosive, but rather, was used as a yellow dye.\u00a0 Because it was so difficult to detonate and not very powerful compared to many other popular explosives of the day, it wasn\u2019t commonly used as an explosive until much later by German forces in 1902.\u00a0\u00a0 The Germans devised [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1371,1370,1369],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-tnt-facts","tag-tnt-origins","tag-tnt-yellow-dye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}