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Meaning of "smokeless powder"

smokeless powder: This phrase refers to a type of gunpowder that produces less smoke when fired, commonly used in modern firearms for various purposes
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  • An explosive, similar to gunpowder, consisting of nitrocellulose mixed with nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine; it burns with very little smoke.

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The development of smokeless powder revolutionized the rifle.
Smokeless powder burns only on the surfaces of the pieces.
And not a smokeless powder one.
The latter advantage continued to be significant with smokeless powder.
The use of smokeless powder is prohibited.
Decoppering agents are frequently added to smokeless powder propellants.
If smokeless powder be divided into sufficiently small grains to be.
The factory specialised in smokeless powder for sporting guns.
Nitroguanidine is used as an explosive propellant, notably in triple-base smokeless powder.
Snus is a smokeless powder that is placed under the lips.
Used with either black powder or smokeless powder loads.
Perhaps smokeless powder would have put a stop to this.
Metal packages of the type used for smokeless powder are becoming obsolete.
By this time smokeless powder had replaced gunpowder as the standard propellant.
Grains are used worldwide for measuring gunpowder and smokeless powder charges.

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Finnish smokeless powder.
And large artillery increasingly began to depend on cordite, a smokeless powder.
Mendeleyev invented a smokeless powder for the needs of state defense.
This is effective with black powder, but less so with smokeless powder.
Military quantities of old smokeless powder were sometimes reworked into new lots of propellants.
The antitank grenades are of combination type, using a charge of smokeless powder for RCL-type launch.
Pyrocollodion is a smokeless powder invented by Dimitri Mendeleev.
Goddard described extensive experiments with solid-fuel rocket engines burning high grade nitrocellulose smokeless powder.
Pyrocollodion is a smokeless powder invented by Dmitri Mendeleev.
DuPont continued to expand, moving into the production of dynamite and smokeless powder.
They debate the effect of 5 kg of smokeless powder being accidentally initiated.
There is also the Paul Viele Laboratory, the inventor of a smokeless Powder.
The cartridge was designed for smokeless powder at a time when black-powder cartridges were still popular.
It's got batteries and wires, and the explosive mixture is smokeless powder.
I promised 50 grams of smokeless powder to each one of them.
When smokeless powder was invented in the late 19th century, steel barrels were made.
The charge used nitroglycerine, ammonium nitrate dynamite, smokeless powder and fuse as booster explosives.
Spanish artillery units were armed mainly with modern rapid-fire breech-loading cannon, again using smokeless powder.
The RELOADER ® 15 smokeless powder includes nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, diphenylamine, diisoamyl phthalate and ethyl centralite.
Marginal note, Other dwellings - smokeless powder.
This single-base smokeless powder was originally named " Poudre V " after the inventor 's name.
It was first opened in 1943 as a smokeless powder production plant.
In a system as set forth in claim 18 wherein said propellant ( 63 ) comprises granules of smokeless powder.
The 8 × 57mm I incorporated the advantages of smokeless powder and higher velocity found in the Lebel.
The .45 Colt originally was a black-powder cartridge, but modern loadings use smokeless powder.
Copper jacket. Smokeless powder.
NOTE, Cast, pressed or bagcharges of smokeless powder are listed under CHARGES, PROPELLING.
However, once the design was tried with 6.5mm smokeless powder rounds it worked well.
In 1884, the French physicist Paul Vieille invented a smokeless powder that could be used in rifles.

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