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smokeless powder

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smokeless powder
n.
A relatively smoke-free propellant charge composed mainly of nitrocellulose, used in projectiles and small artillery rockets.
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Noun1.smokeless powder - an explosive (trade name Ballistite) that burns with relatively little smoke; contains pyrocellulose and is used as a propellant
Ballistite
explosive - a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
pyrocellulose - nitrocellulose containing less nitrogen than guncotton; used in making smokeless powder


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They were laughed at by the chemists, who held that, while it was just barely probable that a single cartridge, charged with the new smokeless powder, might spontaneously explode, it was beyond all probability and possibility for all the cartridges in a given area, so charged, spontaneously to explode.
The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context
"And he's using smokeless powder," he concluded, after an examination of the mile-distant shore.
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