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He was fifty and a Colonel of Infantry in the Army of the United States and to pass a physical examination that he had to take the day before he came down to Venice for this shoot, he had taken enough mannitol hexanitrate to, well he did not quite know what to—to pass, he said to himself.

And I think we're seeing that the difference between cellulose hexanitrate and potassium nitrate is the difference between flash and fizzle.