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its equal to 20000 tons of tnt
No- TNT was created long before he was born. However, he DID discover a process to make acetone by fermentation. Acetone is used to produce cordite, another military explosive.
There were 2300 tonnes of picric acid (an explosive agent more destructive than TNT), 200 tonnes of TNT, 35 tonnes of benzole and 10 tonnes of gun cotton.
because the TNT they worked with was harmful and the toxic powders involved in making it turned their skin yellow, over 400 'canaries'died from overexposure to TNT.