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Significados de ballistite em inglês

português
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
Sinônimos
Examples for "smokeless powder"
Examples for "smokeless powder"
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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 em inglês
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 ao longo do tempo