gun cotton's Usage Examples:

teams then wired the gun cotton to the rail and walked on to the next prepared rail, while the third man put into the gun cotton the detonator and fuse.

It was manufactured by dissolving gun cotton in nitrobenzene.

under Messines Ridge that were charged with 454 tonnes (447 long tons) of ammonal and gun cotton.

lacquer cotton, celluloid cotton, and gun cotton.

gun cotton production, incorporation of gun cotton and cordite with mineral jelly and acetone, pressing and reeling of cordite, drying and storage of.

The cause was probably several tons of gun cotton combusting due to the summer heat and the poor standards of hygiene, as well as a.

control on 10 February 1871 before being loaned as a floating depot for gun cotton at Upnor on 19 September.

The cause was probably several tons of gun cotton combusting due to the summer heat and the poor standards of hygiene, as.

Also, with Karmarsch, he developed a process for the preparation of gun cotton.

an accident at Dowlais works where he was conducting experiments with "gun cotton".

with compressed gun cotton], (Berlin, Germany: Mittler und Sohn, 1883).

cannon is then loaded with 400,000 pounds (180,000 kg) of "pyroxyle" (gun cotton) to give the projectile sufficient velocity to leave Earth"s atmosphere.

Disaster struck Stowmarket on 11 August 1871, when an explosion at a local gun cotton factory claimed twenty-eight lives and left seventy five injured.

Synonyms:

pyroxylin, nitrate, celluloid, blasting gelatin, cellulose nitrate, nitrocotton, cordite, nitrocellulose, pyrocellulose, pyroxyline, cellulose ester,

Antonyms:

natural,