Gunpowder is an explosive propellant compound, consisting of saltpetre or nitre, charcoal, and sulphur.
By universal consent, sulphur is included in the mixture, but it is not absolutely necessary for the "propellant power;" for nitre and charcoal only will generate effects similar to the compound with sulphur.
Some shells have their propellent explosive combined with them just as the familiar rifle cartridge contains the propellant combined with the bullet.
In the larger sizes, however, it is much more convenient to have the propellant in a separate cartridge, which can be handled separately and loaded into the gun separately.
The propellant is combined with the bomb and there is a percussion cap which fires it as soon as it strikes the bottom of the tube.
It is desired that a propellant shall produce the maximum velocity with the minimum pressure.
Compressed air was thepropellant for the Zalinski dynamite gun.
Nikanor, however, was put to death by Kassander himself, some months afterwards.
We here learn that in the heroic genealogy of the Asklepiads, the son of Machaon himself bore the name of Nikomachus.
Rick looked up in time to see the rocket split wide open and most of the remaining tons of propellant gush out.
The desert was alive with sound now, with the roaring torch of rocket propellant and the scream of sirens.
The suit had been torn in the fall, and some propellant had gotten in through the rents.
Crews from the trucks, protected by asbestos and plastic, carried hoses to the very edge of the roaring propellant and began to smother it with mounds of foam.
But powerful as were the propellant forces of the lifeboat and fiercely though Costigan applied them, the denizens of the deep clamped a tractor beam upon the flying vessel before it had gained a mile of altitude.
Against the full propellantthrust the monster could draw them no lower, but neither could the lifeboat make any headway toward the surface.
England wanted Cordite, one form of this powder which the British think is the best propellant in the world.
Up until the advent of the present war cotton formed the base of most of the so-called propellant explosives used in advanced warfare.
But powerful as were the propellant forces and fiercely though Costigan applied them, the denizens of the deep clamped a tractor ray upon the flying vessel before it had gained a mile of altitude.
Knights in armour remained practically invulnerable as long as the propellant for missile weapons was limited to the bow-string and as long as the knights fought within the limitations which their armour imposed upon them.
All fixed ammunition was assembled at the shell-filling plants, making it necessary to install at these points storage capacity and equipment to handle the propellant powder as well as to fill the high-explosive shell.
The primer in a cartridge performs the same function that the flint did on the old-fashioned squirrel guns--it touches off the explosive propellant charge.
In addition to solving the problem of producing a sufficient quantity of propellant powder there was also the problem, just as important, of assembling this powder into fixed ammunition, or loading it into bags.
These materials consisted of smokeless powder, used as a propellant to drive the shell from the guns, and of picric acid, used as a high-powered detonative to burst over the enemy lines.
The improved material permits a more powerful propellant charge, which results in greater muzzle velocity, a flatter trajectory, and longer maximum range.
The cost of a loaded 75-millimeter shell with the fuse and propellant charge ready to be fired is about $11.
The newpropellant permitted as great a range of fire without damage to the mortar in firing.
The propellant is the smokeless powder that sends the shell or bullet from the gun; the explosive is the bursting charge within the shell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propellant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
