How To Use Cordite In A Sentence
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The stink of cordite and scorched blood curled into the air.
Etched in Bone
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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.
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That the effect of temperature on the pressure and velocity with axite is only half that with cordite.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is thought faulty cordite caused the series of explosions which tore through the ship, raining debris down up to four miles away.
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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.
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The hall reeked of cordite and the coppered scent of blood.
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(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.
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The stench of cordite hanging in the air, burning my nostrils.
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Smokeless powders came into use, the explosive properties of picric acid were discovered, and melanite, ballistite, and cordite appeared in the last quarter of the century, so that by 1890 nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin-base powders had generally replaced black powder as a propellant.
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
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My burst shattered the wall above his head as he took the stairs full tilt; sending wood chips flying, half-deafening me and filling the tiny hallway with the acrid stench of cordite and hot lead.
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When the other two return, assuming Ferdinand does, Terry's resurrection will be a fait accompli which they either accept or store up as autobiographical cordite for when Don Fabio stands down.
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Smokeless explosives such as cordite, first produced in England in 1889, used gelatinized nitrocellulose, or gun cotton, mixed with minerals and nitroglycerine; stabilizers were later added.
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Smokeless explosives such as cordite, first produced in England in 1889, used gelatinized nitrocellulose, or gun cotton, mixed with minerals and nitroglycerine; stabilizers were later added.
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The hot smell of cordite was everywhere, and dust thickened the night air.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The smoke and smell of cordite is absolutely overwhelming.
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
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It is therefore practicable to use axite cartridges giving higher velocities than can be employed with cordite, as with such velocities the latter would nickel the barrel by excessive friction.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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The irony is that the German breweries rendered idle by Pasteur's strategy were adapted to manufacture acetone for cordite production.
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I love the smell of burnt feathers and gunpowder and cordite!
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In gullies choked with dust and infused with the scent of thyme and cordite, the agonies of the wounded haunted the survivors," Mr. Davis writes of the war.
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And though American males have long been associated with guns, we in Britain tend to forget that women in America are equally seduced by cold steel and cordite.
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In the munitions factories, great care was needed not to cause any sparks while making cordite using nitroglycerin - and the workers also needed to be sober.
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There has always been an edge to the relationship but it was never scented with sulphur or cordite or laced with the naked hostility that defines other rivalries.
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The smoke-laden air, stinking of cordite propellant and explosive, was filled with sound.
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The allusion to smoke and the smell of cordite after a massive explosion feels clear.
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He followed the sound of the gun report, hurdling steps an entire flight at a time, as the smell of cordite stung his nose.
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The leading representatives of this class of propulsive explosives, or 'smokeless powders' are ballistite and cordite, the technology of which will be found fully discussed in special manuals of the subject.
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Omnes quidem ad chorum preuenire satagens, summaque diligencia intendens, ut sorores omnes concorditer alte ac sollempniter Deo psallerent, sicut unicuique sollempnitati et tempori congruebat.
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All the other times it grazed him with a lurid action beat: shock, fear, pain, adrenaline hemorrhaging, and the brimstone reek of cordite.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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A nose-full of cordite in Sinai was worth many hours of briefing in a room in Tel Aviv.
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The irony is that the German breweries rendered idle by Pasteur's strategy were adapted to manufacture acetone for cordite production.
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The engine came unglued and the cockpit filled up with smoke and the smell of cordite.
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In order to ascertain the relative heat imparted to a rifle by the explosion of axite and cordite, ten rounds each of axite and cordite cartridges were fired from a .303 rifle, at intervals of ten seconds, the temperature of the rifle barrel being taken before and after each series: --
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It is found experimentally that m = 1.2 is a good average value to take for cordite; so now supposing the combustion of the charge of the 6-in. is complete in 0.0063 sec., when p = 16 tons per sq. in., b = 1825 cub. in., and that the gas expands adiabatically up to the muzzle, where
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As I found it and stood up, William was standing next to me holding a length of cordite in his right hand, and some fairly evil looking mini-explosives in his left.
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In the munitions factories, great care was needed not to cause any sparks while making cordite using nitroglycerin - and the workers also needed to be sober.
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With cordite was 89° F. Difference in favour of axite 18° F. = 20. 2\%
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His instant emotion was the actor-manager's: theatrical cordite, writer fire.
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The whole place reeked of cordite: a blue haze of gunsmoke rose towards the floodlights.
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Sobrero's substance also found use as a key ingredient in two smokeless powders, ballistic and cordite, from which all modern bullets derive their construction.
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In an old box used to transport artillery shells, the soldiers found strips of highly explosive cordite that had been emptied out of artillery shells.
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Just to starboard is a tangled pile of cordite, a propellant for the shells.
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He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie.
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Five rounds from the Service axite and Service cordite were placed in an oven and heated to a temperature of 110° F. for one hour, and were then fired for pressure.
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It was important to him not to be the second or the third source, but to smell the cordite and to understand the issues.
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Cellulose trinitrate on the other hand is an explosive (guncotton). Cordite is made from guncotton and nitroglycerine.
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One reader suggested that cordite and other chemicals released in the course of a high-powered conventional assault on the city could not be good for a person.
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The hall reeked of cordite and the coppered scent of blood.
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I could smell grease and cordite and something else now - smoke!
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He also coinvented the explosive powder cordite and even worked in collaboration with legendary chemist Pierre Curie.
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The lubricating action of axite is shown by the fact that a series of cordite cartridges fired from a .303 rifle in the ordinary way, followed by a second series, the barrel being lubricated between each shot by firing an axite cartridge alternately with the cordite cartridge.
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Wesson eliminating the smell of cordite from their. 45s in favor of amaretto potpourri.
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The former smokeless powder, containing a large percentage of nitro-glycerine such as "cordite," produced such an effect that the guns were used up and practically worthless, after firing fifty to sixty rounds.
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Obviously, the weeping wound of Northern Ireland is an unpleasant yet unmistakable cicatrix on the face of Ireland's political culture, part of its "cordite-scented past," as Mr. Foster puts it.
Burning Bright
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In the case of cordite, as also with ballistite, a considerable quantity of aqueous vapour has to be added to the permanent gases formed.
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The stench filled the room, overwhelming even the acrid smell of cordite as I walked to the door, raised my rifle and for the first time in my life, I fired a weapon in anger.
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His instant emotion was the actor-manager's: theatrical cordite, writer fire.
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Huge bright red and white flashes were seen in the distance and the air quickly filled with smoke and the acrid smell of cordite and sulphur.
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In the munitions factories, great care was needed not to cause any sparks while making cordite using nitroglycerin - and the workers also needed to be sober.
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People heard the explosion, said they could smell cordite in the air.
