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Producing explosives: A delicate science

Producing explosives: A delicate science

Tour an explosives factory and learn about nitroglycerin.

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Learn how the invention of dynamite led, in part, to the global recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a civil rights leader

Learn how the invention of dynamite led, in part, to the global recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a civil rights leader

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