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Nitroglycerine detonation in slo-mo

Jem Stansfield visits the Defence Academy of the UK in order to make the dangerous high explosive nitroglycerine. Filmed in extreme slo-mo for the first time ever for 'Explosions: How we Shook the World', just a hit with a hammer is enough to cause this sensitive high explosive to detonate - creating a supersonic shockwave and a flash of light that is almost too fast to film, even with the latest specialist cameras.

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2 minutes