Sentence examples for ballistite from inspiring English sources
noun
A smokeless propellant made from nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, developed in the late 19th century.
In 1887 Nobel introduced another of his revolutionary inventions, which he called Ballistite.
In 1887 Nobel introduced ballistite, one of the first nitroglycerin smokeless powders and a precursor of cordite.
Nobel's discovery of this action led to the development of ballistite, the first double-base propellant and a precursor of cordite.
Smokeless powders based on nitrocellulose (called ballistite in France and cordite in Britain) became the standard propellant, and compounds based on picric acid (under various names such as lyddite in Britain, melinite in France, and shimose in Japan) introduced modern high-explosive filling for shells.
Later, Nobel's old antagonist, now Sir Frederick Abel, after picking Nobel's brains, had come up with still another variety of ballistite called cordite.
But his explosives, except for ballistite, were not used in any war during his lifetime, Tore Frangsmyr wrote in a portrait of Nobel published by the Swedish Institute in Stockholm in 1996.
