How To Use Smokeless powder In A Sentence
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Is there a problem chambering the Sharps for smokeless powder cartridges?
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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.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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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.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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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
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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
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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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
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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.
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The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder.
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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.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
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The United States did not adopt the newfangled smokeless powder until 1892, a few years after it became widely available.
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Turning now to the smokeless powders, in which the chief ingredient is nitro-cellulose in some form (either gun-cotton or nitro-lignine, &c.), one of the first of these was Prentice's gun-cotton, which consisted of nitrated paper 15 parts, mixed with 85 parts of unconverted cellulose.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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None of the so-called smokeless powders are entirely smokeless, although some of them are very nearly so.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
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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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Nobel was the owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, including the blasting cap, blasting gelatin, and ballistite, one of the first nitroglycerine smokeless powders to be used as a substitute for black gunpowder.
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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.
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
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On striking the ground, the impact fuse fires a small charge of smokeless powder, blowing the main body of the grenade back into the air.
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In 1888, Alfred Nobel took smokeless powder production to a new plateau by using nitroglycerin to gelatinize nitrocellulose, thereby producing a new commercial smokeless powder named ‘Ballistite.’
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In the early nineties I made the discovery that tri-nitro-cellulose, when combined with pyro-nitro-cellulose, could be much more readily gelatinated and made an excellent smokeless powder, while powder made from pure nitro-cellulose would warp and crack all to pieces in drying.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
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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.
Marvels of Modern Science
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Yours is well within the smokeless powder era and if in good condition should be shootable with the proper length shells.
I have a George Worthington co., double barrel 12 gauge shotgun, Pat. april 20, 1915.
