cordite

How To Use cordite In A Sentence

• The stink of cordite and scorched blood curled into the air. Etched in Bone
• There are still traces of the Volnay's cargo of munitions scattered about the hold areas: rusting steel warheads, balls of lead shot and sticks of cordite looking like wholemeal spaghetti.
• That the effect of temperature on the pressure and velocity with axite is only half that with cordite. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
• And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over.
• The mean velocity of the first series of cordite cartridges was 1,974 ft. per second; the mean velocity of the second series was 2,071 ft. per second; the increased velocity due to the lubricating effect of axite therefore was 97 ft. per second. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
• It was important to him not to be the second or the third source, but to smell the cordite and to understand the issues," Robinson said in an interview. Obituary: Ben Bonk, 56, CIA official helped stem Libya's development of destructive weapons
• It is thought faulty cordite caused the series of explosions which tore through the ship, raining debris down up to four miles away.
• As might perhaps be anticipated from the higher heat of ballistite, its erosive power is slightly greater than that of cordite, while the erosive power of cordite is again slightly greater than that of brown prismatic. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
• The hall reeked of cordite and the coppered scent of blood. CANTICLES • by K.C. Ball
• (of vulcanite), fixed at the bottom of the tanks, into rubber buckets, and is ready for use in the preparation of dynamite, or any of the various forms of gelatine compounds, smokeless powders, &c., such as cordite, ballistite, and many others. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise