Sentence examples for smokeless powder from inspiring English sources
noun
An explosive, similar to gunpowder, consisting of nitrocellulose mixed with nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine; it burns with very little smoke.
There was no smokeless powder on board.
Pioneer in Use of Smokeless Powder.
Another was the use of smokeless powder based on nitroglycerin.
Marquez also bought smokeless powder for the pipe bombs, and Farook bought two handguns.
"Low" explosives — such as black powder or smokeless powder, often used in pipe bombs — deflagrate.
It weighed about 450 kg, and used Cordite, a conventional artillery smokeless powder, as propellant.
To improve its efficiency, he developed his own smokeless powder, cordite.
Several nations began to achieve success with smokeless powder of nitrated cellulose and usually some nitroglycerin.
Firework shells filled with smokeless powder and gasoline littered the floor.
These microstructural changes were correlated with the relative energy of the smokeless powder fillers.
Hodgdon Lil' Gun smokeless powder was used to optimize the dynamic headspace parameters.
