The phrase "as cordite" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are making a comparison or analogy, particularly in relation to something that is explosive or has a strong impact.
Example: "The tension in the room was palpable, as cordite, ready to ignite at any moment."
Alternatives: "like gunpowder" or "similar to explosives".
Ulster will host England's only other qualifiers, Saracens, in April at Ravenhill, where work is going on apace to finish the rebuilding of that venerable rugby bearpit to a new 18,000-capacity; they might be able to smell the paint, as well as the cordite.
All three were removed from service in 1920 and served as proving guns for cordite tests.
The night sky was filled with colour and cordite, but the pomp and circumstance felt as incongruous as the pre-match light show, set against a sky of duck-egg blue.
You might want to consider investing in a gas mask, unless you really enjoy inhaling cordite fumes... Well, as they say, Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hauoli Makihiki Hou!
The original cordite (Cordite Mark I), as manufactured at the royal gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey, England, in 1890, was composed of 37 parts of guncotton, 57.5 parts of nitroglycerin, and 5 parts of mineral jelly together with 0.5 percent of acetone.
July 17 , 1827Woolwich, England September 6, 1902 City of Westminster, England Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, (born July 17 , 1827 Woolwich, London, Eng. died Sept. 6, 1902, Westminster, London) English chemist and explosives specialist who, with the chemist Sir James Dewar, invented cordite (1889), later adopted as the standard explosive of the British army.
There is a potentially dangerous whiff of civil war cordite in the air when large numbers of people are as angry as they get in Question Time audiences.
Strong smell of cordite and blasted granite.
At last the whiff of cordite.
The whiff of cordite is also helpful to the coalition's drive to portray Mr Osborne's plan for eliminating most of the structural deficit within five years as a campaign of necessity rather than political choice.
