gun cotton's Usage Examples:

lacquer cotton, celluloid cotton, and gun cotton.

teams then wired the gun cotton to the rail and walked on to the next prepared rail, while the third man put into the gun cotton the detonator and fuse.

an accident at Dowlais works where he was conducting experiments with "gun cotton".

The cause was probably several tons of gun cotton combusting due to the summer heat and the poor standards of hygiene, as.

It was manufactured by dissolving gun cotton in nitrobenzene.

Also, with Karmarsch, he developed a process for the preparation of gun cotton.

Disaster struck Stowmarket on 11 August 1871, when an explosion at a local gun cotton factory claimed twenty-eight lives and left seventy five injured.

with compressed gun cotton], (Berlin, Germany: Mittler und Sohn, 1883).

Max von Foerster (1884) "Experiments with compressed gun cotton," Nostrand's Engineering.

The explosive charge was 200 lb (91 kg) of gun cotton increased later to 225 lb (102 kg).

control on 10 February 1871 before being loaned as a floating depot for gun cotton at Upnor on 19 September.

cannon is then loaded with 400,000 pounds (180,000 kg) of "pyroxyle" (gun cotton) to give the projectile sufficient velocity to leave Earth's atmosphere.

Synonyms:

pyroxylin; nitrate; celluloid; blasting gelatin; cellulose nitrate; nitrocotton; cordite; nitrocellulose; pyrocellulose; pyroxyline; cellulose ester;

Antonyms:

natural;