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• Consequently, nitroglycerin went largely unnoticed for many years, while the manufacture and use of guncotton, despite several notorious accidents, spread throughout Europe.
• The reason for the replacement is that IMX-101 is even more stable than TNT, which when invented was hailed as famously insensitive to shock and other conditions which would reliably detonate other high explosives of the day such as guncotton and nitroglycerine. Everything2 New Writeups
• Working in the professor's private laboratory Gladstone produced, first, a report on the analysis of sand from a Normandy beach, and then in 1847 a paper on the explosive guncotton, just a year after its discovery by Christian Schönbein.
• There is a guncotton thud, some far-off shift or heave that is also a local sensation, a hollow body sound. Underworld
• I need not trouble you now with the way it is prepared; it is called guncotton (6). The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60
• In this hole a 2 1/4lb charge of guncotton, with detonator and fuse attached, was placed and the sand was heaped back.
• Celluloid is in some respects an ideal medium for film, as it is both transparent and flexible, but it is also a close cousin of cellulose trinitrate, an explosive also known as guncotton. New Scientist - Online News
• Such terrible explosives as trinitrotoluene occasionally mentioned in the published war reports, as well as many others, have as the principal agent of destructive force guncotton, which is ordinary raw cotton or cellulose treated with nitric or sulphuric acid, though there are, of course, other chemicals used in compounding the various forms of deadly explosives. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
• Nitrogen is an important component of common chemical explosives like TNT, nitroglycerin, gunpowder, guncotton, nitrocellulose, picric acid, and ammonium nitrate.
• But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal. The Mysterious Island