Sentence examples for propellant gas from inspiring English sources
The company achieved this by compressing the cans for a range of female deodorants, using 50% less propellant gas.
By the end of 2008, which is the federal deadline for phasing out albuterol inhalers that use an ozone-depleting propellant gas, the nation's annual cost for these inhalers could be $1 billion higher than now.
The consumer goods giant compressed deodorant in its aerosol sprays for Sure, Dove and Vaseline with the aim of reducing product sizes, halving its volume of propellant gas and cutting aluminium use by 25%.
Some later mortars were built with rifled barrels, since these provided better sealing of the propellant gas and greater stability and accuracy owing to the spin imparted to the bomb.
The cartridge cases of these weapons had a weakened section that ruptured on firing, allowing about four-fifths of the propellant gas to be exhausted to the rear of the gun.
Despite the slight escape of propellant gas through the junction between the cylinder and the barrel, the revolver remained a very practical handheld weapon and a viable competitor of the semiautomatic pistol into the 21st century.
First, only some 44 percent by weight of a properly burned charge of black powder was converted into propellant gases, the balance being solid residues.
To prevent the breech from opening so early that propellant gases would rupture the spent cartridge case, the block was heavy and the main spring strong.
A small hole or gas port on the underside of its barrel near the muzzle directed part of the propellant gases into a small cylinder holding a piston that was connected to the bolt.
The AR-15 was gas-operated, but it eliminated the piston in favour of a tube that directed propellant gases directly into an expansion chamber between the bolt and bolt carrier.
The propellant gases blew a cap off of the rear of the tube, in effect canceling the recoil forces generated by the launching of the bomb, which could be lobbed to ranges of 30 to 100 yards.
