Cordite
Cordite Cordite is a smokeless propellant explosive made by ... evaporate, leaving an unstable explosive. Abel and Cordite A United Kingdom government committee, known as ... ballistite", but this was swiftly abbreviated to "cordite". It was quickly discovered that the rate ... by altering the surface area of the cordite. Narrow rods were used in small- ...
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Cordite   (translated from French)
Cordite This article is one ébauche to be ... can share your knowledge by modifying it. cordite is one explosif used in artillery or ... and of nitroguanidine in its modern form (cordite N). This substance almost does not release ... the form of cables from where "the cordite" name. Cordite was used in the atomic bomb ...
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Cordite   (translated from Dutch)
Cordite Cordite is explosieve odourless dam substance that is ... the denomination has been later shortened after "cordite", or cordite. Already it was discovered rapidly that the ... nitrocellulose", what excluded therefore insoluble gun cotton). Cordite, ballistiet and Poudre b have been ...
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Battle of Jutland
... British shells; and, vitally important, the British cordite propellant was oversensitive, and the British magazines ... be laid on lax handling of the cordite propellant for the shells of the main ... slower, more accurate fire. In practice, the cordite could not be supplied to the guns ... 12 was supplied in brass cylinders, British cordite was supplied in silk bags, making it ... to increase the supply of shells and cordite held on the British ships by ...
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.303 British
... a blackpowder round, later adapted to use cordite and then smokeless powder propellant. It was ... the bolt snagging the subsequent cartridge rim. Cordite was used as a propellant from 1891 and the first adopted cordite cartridge, the Cartridge S.A. Ball, Magazine Rifle Cordite Mark 1, used the same bullet but ... II of both the black powder and cordite versions, the Mark 2 and Mark ...
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Little Servant boy   (translated from French)
... speed of 300 m/s, one used cordite, an artillery explosive containing nitrocellulose and of ... detonator Head of the detonator Charge explosive (cordite) Uranium-235 projectile Roll gun Uranium-235 ... Little Boy was particularly dangerous. Once the cordite placed at the good place, any lighting ... the captain William Parsons decided to place cordite after takeoff. After the dropping, the bomb ... the contact which launched the explosion of cordite. The projectile was sent to 300 ...
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Little Boy
... Detonator arm Detonating head Conventional Explosive Charge (cordite) Uranium-235 "Bullet" (ca. 24 kg, 16 ... at a speed of 300 m/s, cordite was used, an artillery explosive based on ... Handling Little Boy was extremely dangerous. Once cordite was placed in the right spot, any ... LtCol William Parsons decided to set the cordite in place only after take-off. After ... contact which caused the explosion of the cordite. About 10 milliseconds later, the chain ...
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ROF Ranskill
... an almost self-contained, explosive factory producing Cordite, with its own acids plant. It was the last Cordite-producing ROF to be built in the ... and was the smallest of the three Cordite ROFs. It was connected to the railway line, with its own private sidings. Cordite production first started in March 1942 and ...
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Smokeless powder
... it replaced. Types of smokeless powder include cordite, ballistite and, historically, Poudre B. Description Smokeless ... James Dewar which eventually became known as cordite, leading to a lengthy court battle between ... alone are known as single-base, whereas cordite-like mixtures are known as double-base. A triple-base flashless cordite was also developed, primarily for large naval ...
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