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• Is there a problem chambering the Sharps for smokeless powder cartridges?
• (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
• 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. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
• Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
• There’s nothing ferrous about gunpowder — the nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin in modern smokeless powder have no iron, and neither does old-fashioned blackpowder, which is charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter — so I assume Indy is setting up some kind of ruse. Indiana Jones and the Magnetic Skull « Isegoria
• The manufacture of smokeless powders on the one hand, and of celluloid and xylonite (both in the form of films and solid aggregates) on the other, has taken no new departure. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
• Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
• Had he used the so-called smokeless powder the Haussas might have expended hundreds of rounds without discovering the cheat. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force
• In 1875 Nobel created blasting gelatin, a colloidal suspension of nitrocellulose in glycerin, and in 1887 ballistite, a nearly smokeless powder especially suitable for propelling military projectiles.
• The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder.