guncotton

Small arms could not withstand the pressures generated by guncotton.

In all, three charges of guncotton were placed on the battery, completely destroying it.

The power of guncotton made it suitable for blasting.

While guncotton is dangerous to store, its risks can be reduced by storing it wet or in oil.

So I conceived of an engine employing guncotton.

Each of the warheads held over a hundred kilos of guncotton.

There he worked with the explosive material guncotton and other nitrosulphates.

Abel patented this process in 1865, when the second Austrian guncotton factory exploded.

Jules Verne viewed the development of guncotton with optimism.

When used as a propellant or low-order explosive, it is also known as guncotton.

Early guncotton was unstable however, and burned very fast and hot, leading to greatly increased barrel wear.

Guncotton was more powerful than gunpowder, but at the same time was somewhat more unstable.

The main manufacturing industry in Penrhyndeudraeth was established in 1872 to make guncotton.

A hole was to be made large enough to hold fifty pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is four times that of gunpowder.

The Russians used armour-piercing rounds with small guncotton bursting charges and unreliable fuses.

Nitrocellulose or "guncotton" is formed by the action of nitric acid on cellulose fibers.

She was able to withstand explosions of up to 220 pounds of guncotton in a distance of 75 yards from its body.

Alfred Nobel then developed ballistite, by combining nitroglycerin and guncotton.

However guncotton, an explosive substance, proved to be too fast burning at the time for direct use in firearms and artillery ammunition.

In the early years of their use both the original Poudre B and guncotton led to accidents.

They blasted their own rock from nearby cliffs with guncotton from the prefab chemical factory.

Sometimes crushed white sugar was burned with potash, or magnesium powder was sprinkled on guncotton.

Nitroglycerine and guncotton were available earlier but shock sensitivity sometimes caused detonation in the artillery barrel at the time of firing.

Nitrocellulose, produced by nitration of cellulose with nitric acid, is also known as guncotton.

Products included cordite, guncotton, gunpowder, and cartridges.