A nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives.
1 Here guncotton , exploded in the open, forms the most appropriate source of sound.
2 With them they brought a ton and a half of guncotton .
3 Abel argued that dynamite was far more dangerous than guncotton , which was not true.
4 Every pound of guncotton did its work, and though the ruins burned, it was but feebly.
5 So I conceived of an engine employing guncotton .
6 Sooner than that, I would sweep out the guncotton shed, or be one of Bodger's barmaids.
7 From these experiments it appeared that the guncotton and cotton-powder were practically equal as producers of sound.
8 Now guncotton looks like common cotton.
9 Better, doubtless, to call it the "high explosive period," for various other nitro-compounds besides guncotton are being used.
10 To help administer the act, Parliament had hired a chemist named Frederick Abel, who had been working with guncotton - another powerful explosive.
11 In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton , since he had azotic acid at his disposal.
12 Nitric acid, which is necessary to the manufacture of guncotton , for many years was made principally with saltpeter and sulphuric acid.
13 Some very good bombs were made from jam-tins with a wad of guncotton , and filled up with all manner of missiles.
14 For some reason the fuse used for the guncotton was defective, and half an hour elapsed before the explosion destroyed the howitzer.
15 They could have forced their explosives farther in the burning section, but not a pound of guncotton could be or was wasted.
16 But it would be easy to make some guncotton , or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.
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