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cordite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | explosive compound |
Examples of cordite
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Canadian Explosives Limited built an additional cordite factory at Nobel, Ontario.
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Four of these six were involved in cordite or firearm-propellant manufacture.
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Cordite MD also shed micro-dust particles of nitrocellulose and iron pyrite.
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Cordite, lakes of fire, tower flybys, the sound of cats being shoveled into a furnace.
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Not every Warner's cartoon is so heavy on the cordite and flying feathers.
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Cordite, used for propelling the shells, was prone to explode if allowed to overheat.
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Whilst cordite is classified as an explosive, it is not employed as a high explosive.
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There was a dirty blue cloud of smoke and the acrid stench of cordite.
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When the cordite smoke blew away, only 195 British soldiers were alive.
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- Explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords
- Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom from 1889 to replace gunpowder as a military propellant. Like gunpowder, cordite is classified as a low explosive because of its slow burning rates and consequently low brisance. ...
- A slow-burning, smokeless explosive powder that was invented in 1889 by Sir Frederick Augustus Abel and Sir James Dewar; composed of nitroglycerin and cellulose nitrate blended by acetone, with a mineral jelly lubricant; named for the cord-like form it takes when treated with certain chemicals. ...
- The main British service explosive of World War I. *
- A nitroglycerine propellant, so called because of the powders cord-like shape. Is was used principally in Great Britain.
- An obsolete double-base smokeless propellant, which was extruded in the form of long strands. It was developed by the British government in 1889 for the .303 service rifle, and was also extensively used in a family of powerful sporting rifles known by the term "nitro express. ...
- A smokeless propellent made of nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and mineral jelly extruded into strands which are cut to length for use in small arms ammunition.
