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115 relations: Acetone, Alfred Nobel, Anti-aircraft warfare, Arsenal, Artillery, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ball propellant, Ballistite, Barium nitrate, Beloeil, Quebec, BL 5.5-inch medium gun, Brisance, Bullet, Caerwent, Caerwent Training Area, Camphor, Canada, Canadian Industries Limited, Capital ship, Celluloid, Cellulose, Centralite, Chaim Weizmann, Charcoal, Clostridium acetobutylicum, Collodion, Commonwealth of Nations, Cordaites, Cordtex, Court of Appeal (England and Wales), David & Charles, Deflagration, Detonation, Diethyl ether, Dumfries, Ejection seat, England, English Heritage, Ethanol, Explosive, FH70, Filling factories in the United Kingdom, Firearm, Firearm propellant, Fireworks, Frederick Abel, Full metal jacket (ammunition), Geometry, Glycerol, Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, ... Expand index (65 more) »
- Firearm propellants
Acetone
Acetone (2-propanone or dimethyl ketone) is an organic compound with the formula.
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman.
Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).
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Arsenal
An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned.
Artillery
Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Ball propellant
Ball propellant (trademarked as Ball Powder by Olin Corporation and marketed as spherical powder by Hodgdon Powder CompanyWootters, John Propellant Profiles (1982) Wolfe Publishing Company pp.95,101,136-138,141,149&155) is a form of nitrocellulose used in small arms cartridges. Cordite and Ball propellant are firearm propellants.
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Ballistite
Ballistite is a smokeless propellant made from two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. Cordite and Ballistite are firearm propellants.
Barium nitrate
Barium nitrate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ba(NO3)2.
See Cordite and Barium nitrate
Beloeil, Quebec
Beloeil is a city in Quebec, Canada.
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BL 5.5-inch medium gun
The BL 5.5-inch gun was a British artillery gun introduced during the middle of the Second World War to equip medium batteries.
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Brisance
Brisance is the shattering capability of a high explosive, determined mainly by its detonation pressure.
Bullet
A bullet is a kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is shot from a gun barrel.
Caerwent
Caerwent (Caer-went) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Caerwent Training Area
Caerwent Training Area is a British military installation at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Wales.
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Camphor
Camphor is a waxy, colorless solid with a strong aroma.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canadian Industries Limited
Canadian Industries Limited, also known as C-I-L, is a Canadian chemicals manufacturer.
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Capital ship
The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet.
Celluloid
Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents.
Cellulose
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of β(1→4) linked D-glucose units.
Centralite
Centralite (empirical formula: C17H20N2O) is a gunshot residue also known as ethyl centralite.
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.
Clostridium acetobutylicum
Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish Russian-born biochemist Chaim Weizmann.
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Collodion
Collodion is a flammable, syrupy solution of nitrocellulose in ether and alcohol.
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Cordaites
Cordaites is an important genus of extinct gymnosperms, related to or actually representing the earliest conifers.
Cordtex
Cordtex is a type of detonating cord generally used in mining.
Court of Appeal (England and Wales)
The Court of Appeal (formally "His Majesty's Court of Appeal in England", commonly cited as "CA", "EWCA" or "CoA") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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David & Charles
David & Charles Ltd is an English publishing company.
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Deflagration
Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, 'to burn down') is subsonic combustion in which a pre-mixed flame propagates through an explosive or a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
Detonation
Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
Diethyl ether
Diethyl ether, or simply ether, is an organic compound with the chemical formula, sometimes abbreviated as.
Dumfries
Dumfries (Dumfries; from Dùn Phris) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, from the Anglo-Scottish border.
Ejection seat
In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
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Ethanol
Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
Explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
FH70
The FH70 (field howitzer for the 1970s) is a towed howitzer used by several nations.
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Filling factories in the United Kingdom
A filling factory was a manufacturing plant that specialised in filling various munitions, such as bombs, shells, cartridges, pyrotechnics, and screening smokes.
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Firearm
A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.
Firearm propellant
Firearm propellants are a specialized type of propellant used to discharge a projectile (typically a bullet, slug, or pellets) through the barrel of a firearm. Cordite and firearm propellant are firearm propellants.
See Cordite and Firearm propellant
Fireworks
Fireworks are low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.
Frederick Abel
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet (17 July 18276 September 1902) was an English chemist who was recognised as the leading British authority on explosives.
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Full metal jacket (ammunition)
A full metal jacket (FMJ) bullet is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead) encased in an outer shell ("jacket") of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel, or, less commonly, a steel alloy.
See Cordite and Full metal jacket (ammunition)
Geometry
Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
Glycerol
Glycerol, also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound.
Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway
Gretna (Greatna) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, originally part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire.
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Gun barrel
A gun barrel is a crucial part of gun-type weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces, and air guns.
Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. Cordite and Gunpowder are firearm propellants.
HM Factory, Gretna
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House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company.
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Imperial Munitions Board
The Imperial Munitions Board (IMB) was the Canadian branch of the British Ministry of Munitions, set up in Canada under the chairmanship of Joseph Wesley Flavelle.
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Improved Military Rifle
Improved military rifle propellants are tubular nitrocellulose propellants evolved from World War I through World War II for loading military and commercial ammunition and sold to civilians for reloading rifle ammunition for hunting and target shooting. Cordite and Improved Military Rifle are firearm propellants.
See Cordite and Improved Military Rifle
Industrial fermentation
Industrial fermentation is the intentional use of fermentation in manufacturing processes.
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Ingrid Carlberg
Ingrid Margareta Carlberg, (born 30 November 1961) is a Swedish author and journalist.
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James Dewar
Sir James Dewar (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a British chemist and physicist.
L118 light gun
The L118 light gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer.
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Little Boy
Little Boy was the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.
Martin-Baker
Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited is a British manufacturer of ejection seats and safety-related equipment for aviation.
Metric system
The metric system is a decimal-based system of measurement.
Ministry of Supply
The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed on 1 August 1939 by the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 38) to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.
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Nitric acid
Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.
Nitrocellulose
Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid. Cordite and Nitrocellulose are firearm propellants.
See Cordite and Nitrocellulose
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
Nitroglycerin
Nitroglycerin (NG) (alternative spelling of nitroglycerine), also known as trinitroglycerol (TNG), nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a dense, colorless or pale yellow, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating glycerol with white fuming nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the nitric acid ester.
Nitroguanidine
Nitroguanidine - sometimes abbreviated NGu - is a colorless, crystalline solid that melts at 257 °C and decomposes at 254 °C.
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Nobel Enterprises
Nobel Enterprises is a chemicals business that used to be based at Ardeer, in the Ayrshire town of Stevenston, in Scotland.
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Nobel, Ontario
Nobel is a village on the shores of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.
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Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
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Ordnance QF 25-pounder
The Ordnance QF 25-pounder, or more simply 25-pounder or 25-pdr, with a calibre of 3.45 inches (87.6 mm), was a piece of field artillery used by British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Paul Marie Eugène Vieille
Paul Marie Eugène Vieille (2 September 1854 – 14 January 1934) was a French chemist who invented modern nitrocellulose-based smokeless gunpowder in 1884.
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Petroleum jelly
Petroleum jelly, petrolatum, white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with carbon numbers mainly higher than 25), originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties.
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Photograph
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip.
Potassium nitrate
Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.
See Cordite and Potassium nitrate
Poudre B
Poudre B was the first practical smokeless gunpowder created in 1884. Cordite and Poudre B are firearm propellants.
Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Rifle
A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a barrel that has a helical or spiralling pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall.
ROF Bishopton
The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bishopton was a WW2 Ministry of Supply Explosive Factory.
ROF Ranskill
The Royal Ordnance Factory ROF Ranskill was a United Kingdom Ministry of Supply, World War II, Explosive ROF.
Royal Arsenal
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces.
Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath
The Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath (RNCF) was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset, England, in World War I to manufacture cordite for the Royal Navy.
See Cordite and Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Royal Ordnance Factory
Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) were munitions factories run by the UK government during and after the Second World War.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
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Shell (projectile)
A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.
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Shell Crisis of 1915
The Shell Crisis of 1915 was a shortage of artillery shells on the front lines in the First World War that led to a political crisis in the United Kingdom.
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Smokeless powder
Finnish smokeless powder Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder. Cordite and smokeless powder are firearm propellants.
See Cordite and Smokeless powder
Solvent
A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution.
Spaghetti
Spaghetti is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta.
Stowmarket Guncotton Company
The Stowmarket Guncotton Company was an explosives company established in the 19th century by Messrs Prentice that operated a gun-cotton factory in Stowmarket, Suffolk, England.
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Sulfur
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.
Tank gun
A tank gun is the main armament of a tank.
Thousandth of an inch
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches.
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TNT
Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT (and more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.
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Ton
Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force.
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Tonne
The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.
Treatise on Ammunition
Treatise on Ammunition, from 1926 retitled Text Book of Ammunition, is a series of manuals detailing all British Empire military and naval service ammunition and associated equipment in use at the date of publication. Cordite and Treatise on Ammunition are ammunition.
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Unrotated Projectile
The Unrotated Projectile (UP) was a British anti-aircraft and ground-bombardment rocket of the Second World War.
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Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills
The Royal Gunpowder Mills are a former industrial site in Waltham Abbey, England.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a town in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Wrexham Industrial Estate
Wrexham Industrial Estate is a well defined industrial area in Wrexham, Wales.
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.303 British
The.303 British (designated as the 303 British by the C.I.P. and SAAMI) or 7.7×56mmR, is a calibre rimmed tapered rifle cartridge.
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO (official NATO nomenclature 5.56 NATO, commonly pronounced "five-five-six") is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal.
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8×50mmR Lebel
The 8×50mmR Lebel (8mm Lebel) (designated as the 8 × 51 R Lebel by the C.I.P.) rifle cartridge was the first smokeless powder cartridge to be made and adopted by any country.
See also
Firearm propellants
- Ball propellant
- Ballistite
- Black powder substitute
- Brown powder
- California Powder Works
- Cordite
- Firearm propellant
- Gunpowder
- Hodgdon Powder Company
- IMR Legendary Powders
- Improved Military Rifle
- Laflin & Rand Powder Company
- Nitrocellulose
- Oriental Powder Company
- Piobert's law
- Poudre B
- Pyrocollodion
- Smokeless powder
- W231
References
Also known as RDB Cordite.