Home›Articles›How Alfred Nobel tamed nitroglycerinArticleHow Alfred Nobel tamed nitroglycerinArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnDynamite, Inventions Well-attested SourcesDynamite (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaHistoryQuote, HistoryFinally, he tried diatomaceous earth, which is fossilized algae, that he brought from the Elbe River near his factory in Hamburg, which successfully stabilized the nitroglycerin into a portable explosive.View the SourceAtlas Article Vocabularytier 1AtlasComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.