"Randan is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.
The place gives its name to Randanite, a soluble silica that occurs as fine ...
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earth near Randan and near Algiers.In the late 19th century the official composition of the dynamite at the Poudrerie nationale de Vonges and other French powder works was 75% nitroglycerin, 20.8% randanite, 3.8% Vierzon silica and 0.4% magnesium carbonate." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020)
- Latitude46.017776489258
- Longitude3.3547222614288
