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Cordite   Listen
noun
Cordite  n.  (Mil.) A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.






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"Cordite" Quotes from Famous Books



... first shot had torn through his loins and my second had struck between neck and shoulder and ranged the entire length of his body. But even the terrible shock of two great .450 cordite-driven balls did not serve to stop him, and the very moment I hit the ground he lit diagonally across my body, his belly pressing mine, his hot breath burning my cheek, his fierce eyes glaring ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson

... next day, with a plentiful supply of cordite bombs and dynamite on board for blasting the Viking ship free of the ice casing which it was to be expected surrounded her, the Golden Eagle soared away ...
— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton



Words linked to "Cordite" :   mineral jelly, nitrocellulose, nitrocotton, nitroglycerine, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, petrolatum, trinitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate, explosive compound, petroleum jelly, guncotton



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