Sentence examples for smokeless from inspiring English sources

In 1887 Nobel introduced ballistite, one of the first nitroglycerin smokeless powders and a precursor of cordite.

In contrast to black powder, it produces almost all gas upon combustion, earning itself the appellation smokeless powder.

The company, Swedish Match, sells smokeless tobacco and other products, and does not make cigarettes.In this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Correction: Swedish Match Reprints.

In an internal party speech in 2005 Mr Hu gave warning of a "smokeless war" being waged by China's enemies, and of the need to defend the party ideologically.

Although cigarette consumption is declining, the market for smokeless (mostly snuff and chewable) tobacco, such as Conwood's Kodiak brand, has been growing at 5% a year.In an effort to control a racing economy, China's central bank raised interest rates for the first time in 18 months.

By contrast, rates of cigarette use in India and Bangladesh are misleadingly low because both sexes favour smokeless tobacco and bidis (tobacco rolled in a tendu or temburni leaf).

By World War I (1914 18) all major powers adopted smokeless-powder, bolt-action, magazine-fed repeating rifles, and some had shifted to a second generation.

France was the first country to issue a small-bore, high-velocity repeating rifle, the Modèle 1886 Lebel, which fired an 8-millimetre, smokeless-powder round.

The general adoption after the 1880s of long-range rifles firing smokeless-powder rounds rendered this tactic hazardous, and the South African War and Russo-Japanese War (1904 05) brought about a change in policy.

In Britain, Maxim guns were first chambered for the.45-inch Martini-Henry cartridge, but, as issued in 1891, they fired the.303-inch smokeless-powder round of the Lee-Metford rifle.

But it's as "one of the premier authors' representatives in the world" that he moved from now-smokeless back rooms into the public eye.