Cordite Definition

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.

• 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.

• It is found experimentally that m = 1.2 is a good average value to take for cordite; so now supposing the combustion of the charge of the 6-in.

• Thus the cordite, size 30, of the range table has been squeezed through a hole 0.30 in.

• He was president of the Chemical Society in 1897, and of the British Association in 1902, served on the Balfour Commission on London Water Supply (1893-1894), and as a member of the Committee on Explosives (1888-1891) invented cordite jointly with Sir Frederick Abel.