The vibrational frequency of the element heat ruptures the associated elements in gunpowder, dissociating them with explosive violence. The heat, a vibrational element, simply acts as a detonator, its vibrational frequency through sympathetic action, increasing the oscillation frequency of the constituent elements in the powder, thereby causing chemical attraction to supersede cohesion, and the result of the combinational effects is the resultant explosion.
Dynamite requires the vibrational frequency of a detonator, as is also true of fulminate of mercury and nitroglycerine, nitrogen iodide, etc., and their increasing sensitiveness to jars or blows is in the order above given. The last one, nitrogen iodide, is the most sensitive explosive known. The jar of a fly's tread as it walks over the dry crystals is sufficient to detonate it. Nitroglycerine will burn in open air when pure without explosion, but if water is present or if it is jarred, it will detonate instantly. Guncotton will burn in open air without explosion, but if an electric spark from an alternator, or from a coil, which brings the vibrational frequency of heat and electricity into play, only comes into contact with the guncotton it will detonate violently. Trinitrotoluol can be placed on an anvil and hit with a heavy hammer without exploding. It can stand these jars, but let it come into contact with exploding fulminate of mercury or a detonator of equal violence, and the blow struck on the Trinitrotoluol is sufficient to explode it with terrific energy. All explosives work with a detonating agent, and detonation occurs through the medium of a vibrational element.
Keely's dissociative vibrations are simply the detonators of matter, which resolve the molecules into their constituent ether. The wonderful energy he liberated is simply the latent energy in matter, and if utilized will make the most wonderful, inexhaustible power that has ever been known.