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Significados de Ballistite en inglés

portugués
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
Sinónimos
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
Uso de Ballistite en inglés
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 tiempo