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Smokeless powder   Listen
noun
Smokeless powder  n.  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. It is usually based on guncotton (nitrocellulose).






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"Smokeless powder" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I'm the first man in the business to get one, and I'll bet on it. I keep up with the times." For once, he was revealing that fundamental egotism which is the characteristic of all his kind. "That's one of the new Maxim silencers," he continued. "With smokeless powder in the cartridges, and the silencer on, I can make a shot from my coat-pocket, and you wouldn't even know it had been done.... And I'm some ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana



Words linked to "Smokeless powder" :   Ballistite, pyrocellulose



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