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Definition of Smokeless powder
1. Noun. An explosive (trade name Ballistite) that burns with relatively little smoke; contains pyrocellulose and is used as a propellant.
Definition of Smokeless powder
1. Noun. An explosive, similar to gunpowder, consisting of nitrocellulose mixed with nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine; it burns with very little smoke. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Smokeless Powder
Literary usage of Smokeless powder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"When smokeless powder is fired it gives a much more brilliant flash than ordinary
... Progressive smokeless powder.— With increasing calibres and lengths of ..."
2. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1917)
"It will be seen, at a glance, that smokeless powder, whose products of ...
The products of combustion of smokeless powder are not only practically all ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
"Editor RECREATION : ME B,, in August RECREATION, asks why the so-called shot gun
smokeless powder can not be used in a rifle, and why smokeless powder can ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"The first smokeless powder I ever used that was not affected by climatic changes
was the old American smokeless powder Co.'s WA; but this had one bad fault ..."
5. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1901)
"The cost per ton of energy for each powder is computed using a cost of $0.90 per
pound for smokeless powder, but it can now be bought for $0.70 per pound, ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1901)
"A SHORT review of the methods now in use for the estimation of soluble nitrocellulose
in guncotton and smokeless powder may be of interest to those who are ..."
7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"A semi-smokeless powder was invented by Schultze, in 1865, who used nitrated wood
granulated with a saturated solution of barium and potassium nitrates; ..."
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