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Significats de ballistite en anglès

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pólvora sem fumaça

An explosive (trade name Ballistite) that burns with relatively little smoke; contains pyrocellulose and is used as a propellant.

        pólvora sem fumaça
        Sinònims
        Examples for "smokeless powder"
        Examples for "smokeless powder"
        1
        The propelling force is a charge of seven ounces of smokeless powder.
        History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Sant...
        2
        Their small number and their smokeless powder make their discovery most difficult.
        America's War for Humanity
        3
        Nobody had paid any attention to it, because he shot smokeless powder.
        O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
        4
        The Spaniards were using smokeless powder, then rather a new thing in war.
        Theodore Roosevelt
        5
        A great many stories have been told about the noiselessness of smokeless powder.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
        Ús de ballistite en anglès
        1
        It later diversified into the production of blasting gelatin and ballistite, which was a precursor of cordite, an explosive used in weaponry.
        BBC
        2
        Later, Nobel's old antagonist, now Sir Frederick Abel, after picking Nobel's brains, had come up with still another variety of ballistite called cordite.
        The new yorker
        Translations for ballistite
        Ballistite a través del temps