Highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or to another nitrating agent.
1Dissolve gun cotton in sulphuric ether, and thicken it with gum mucilage.
2Three 250-pound charges of gun cotton were sent over the fortifications at the entrance.
3The word gun cotton has always been rather loosely used.
4They are produced commercially and are known as " gun cotton" or "pyroxyline".
5Paint the surface with a solution of gun cotton (collodion).
6This is sufficient to light gas or an alcohol lamp, also to ignite powder or gun cotton.
7Bilton will give you a sample of gun cotton when you are leaving if you ask him.
8Two charges went true, as no reports were heard-a peculiarity of the explosion of gun cotton in water.
9The barrels of gun cotton were now hastily opened on the bank, and men waded out with the contents.
10Captain Aylmer, R.E., set to work to place a charge of gun cotton against the main entrenchment of the fort.
11The dry gun cotton primers and detonators were stowed in the cabin aft, and remote from the scene of the explosion.
12The charges of gun cotton, that the swimmers brought ashore with them, were placed in the cannon; and their muzzles blown off.
13The prince saves the princess from being drowned, when the secret explodes like a roll of gun cotton, and a grand turmoil ensues.
14DUSSAUCE.-PracticalTreatise on the Fabrication of Matches, Gun Cotton, and Fulminating Powder.
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