Cordite meaning

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Any of a family of smokeless explosive powders consisting chiefly of nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and petrolatum that have been dissolved in acetone, dried, and extruded in cords.
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A smokeless explosive containing nitroglycerin, guncotton, petroleum jelly, and acetone.
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An explosive powder consisting of nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin, and petroleum jelly, used as a propellant for guns. It does not generate smoke and is shaped into cords.
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A smokeless propellent made by combining two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, used in some firearm ammunition.
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Origin of cordite

  • cord +‎ -ite; the material is manufactured into short cordlike cylinders.
    From Wiktionary

Cordite Sentence Examples

  • But the shot advances during the combustion of the cordite, and the chief problem in interior ballistics is to adjust the G.D.

  • When cordite replaced black powder, and the gun sights and all in front of the gun were no longer obscured by hanging clouds of smoke, it became a desideratum, and, as the automatic sight, it was reintroduced by Sir G.

  • Comparing this time with the experimental value of the time occupied by the cordite in burning, a start is made for a fresh estimate and a closer approximation.

  • Assuming, however, that the agreement is close enough for practical requirement, the conbustion of the cordite may be considered complete at this stage P, and in the subsequent expansion it is assumed that the gas obeys an adiabatic law in which the pressure varies inversely as some mtn power of the volume.

  • Dean instinctively sniffed the air for the smell of cordite but his nostrils picked up only the scent of alcohol.

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