Lexicographical Neighbors of Axite
Literary usage of Axite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United Service (1905)
"A .303 axite Service cartridge, fired for velocity and pressure at an ordinary
... A .375/303 axite cartridge with a 20O-grain bullet gave 2498 fs and 19.24 ..."
2. Nitro-explosives: A Practical Treatise Concerning the Properties by Percy Gerald Sanford (1906)
"axite is made in the form of a ribbon, the cross section being similar in ...
That the effect of temperature on the pressure and velocity with axite is only ..."
3. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports by United States Bureau of Manufactures (1905)
"A number of 0.37.5-0.803 axite cartridges with 200-grain bullets tired from a rifle
... Similar experiments with a service 0.303 rifle gave with axite a ..."
4. Big Game Shooting in Upper Burma by George Patrick Elyston Evans (1911)
"axite is practically unaffected by tropical temperature, does not corrode the
barrels as cordite does, and is just as powerful. ..."
5. Rifles and Rifle Shooting by Charles Askins (1912)
"Mauser-Spitzer, .280 Ross, 30-'06 Springfield, .275-303 axite. ... With the
exception of the .275-300 axite, all the above are alike in every essential ..."
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