I beheld that illustrious one proceeding, after he had ascended the sky, like a smokeless brand of blazing splendour.
Exerting himself with care, he seemed to stand in that battle like a smokeless fire.
A smokeless powder consisting mainly of nitro-glycerine and gun-cotton mixed with acetone.
Amberite, Ballistite, Cordite, and othersmokeless powders, consisting of nitro-glycerine and cellulose nitrates in about equal proportions.
A smokeless powder composed of nearly equal parts of nitro-glycerine and nitrated cellulose, with a small quantity of diphenylamine.
Charges of smokeless powder for thirteen, eight, and six-inch guns, in copper canisters, were also taken aboard.
General quarters at 1:30; fired two shots at an invisible target with smokeless powder.
Her foreign build made it easy to distinguish her, and, as she was the only craft using smokeless powder, she presented a prominent mark.
They are not very noisy, they are not very smoky, and they will be smokeless and almost noiseless when they are run by electricity.
A method for the determination of soluble nitro-cellulose in gun-cotton and smokeless powder has been published by K.
Undoubtedly the advent of the horny smokeless powders of modern times has made it a little difficult to give the test the same scope as it had when first introduced.
In the manufacture of smokeless powders from nitro-cellulose, nitro-lignine, &c.
Smokeless Diamond~, also manufactured by the above mentioned firm, is a nitro-cellulose powder of the 33-grain type of sporting gunpowders.
The various smokeless powders may be roughly divided into military and sporting powders.
Gun-cotton is often required in the granulated form for use either alone or with some form of smokeless powder.
In his description of the "Preparation of Cotton-waste for the Manufacture of Smokeless Powder," A.
The Nobel Company is said to be perfecting a smokeless powder in which the chief ingredients are nitro-amido- and tri- nitro-benzene.
It is made by the Columbia Powder Manufacturing Company, of New York, and in two forms--one for use as a smokeless rifle powder, and the other for blasting purposes.
At present the possible rapidity of fire is much greater than can be utilized, on account of the smoke; hence the necessity of smokeless powder.
The tendency of these mixtures is to absorb moisture, and the gun-cotton in them to decompose, and there is no smokeless powder which can to-day be considered successful.
On a sidetrack lay a locomotive, smokeless and inert, just as her crew had abandoned her.
But, as they came in sight of the tall stockade and the smokeless chimneys of the Esmeralda, they saw that their apprehensions were groundless.
As the Spaniards used smokeless powder, it was very difficult to locate the position of their pieces, while, on the contrary, the smoke caused by our black powder plainly indicated the position of our battery.
There was no trace to be seen of the enemy’s batteries, by reason of their use of smokeless powder.
Smokeless powder makes it impossible to locate the enemy, and you wonder where the fire comes from.
Rather pray that peace, soon bringing Work and plenty in her train, We may see these smokeless chimneys Blackening all the land again.
Look and learn, as on you speed; See the hundred smokeless chimneys, Learn their tale of cheerless need.
Let no more the smokeless chimneys Draw from you one word of praise; Think, oh, think upon the thousands Who are moaning out their days.
Bernadou's Smokeless Powder--Nitro-cellulose and Theory of the Cellulose Molecule.
Bernadou's Smokeless Powder, Nitro-cellulose, and the Theory of the Cellulose Molecule.
Burned to a crisp, boiled in water, and eaten with a spoon it was as thoroughly disguised as odorless whisky or smokeless tobacco, in the soubriquet "gum chowder.
And will they then fill the newest New Forest that will have covered the smokeless land, with the descendants of the herds that Caesar's troops found in the Hercynian wilds?
I was out that morning with the twelve gauge, smokeless shells and seven and a half chilled shot.
Smokeless powders made from guncotton, dynamite, and gelatine were introduced by Nobel in 1890.
Alcohol makes a very hot and almostsmokeless flame, even when little air is present.
See that the ports thru which air is drawn into the lamp are open as wide as needed to give a clear, smokeless flame without firing back.
A moment later we saw, in the direction of Mantua, that brief, silent, smokeless red and green flash.
Then there came a flash as though a huge quantity of red and green smokeless powder had gone off in a puff; a brief instant of darkness, and then flames rose from a hundred points in the little town.
Smokelessness would be such an obvious advantage in military operations, that the study of this powder was prosecuted carefully, with a view to obtaining a smokeless powder suitable for military purposes.
The invention of smokeless powder was not one of a high order of brilliancy for the reason that it was the result of a long series of painstaking investigations and not of any luminous idea.
An invention in a similar class, smokeless gunpowder was invented by Schultze in 1863, for use as a sporting powder.
You see, as it is now, with smokeless powder and practically invisible uniforms, ten thousand men can do a lot of damage before anyone on the other side can locate them at all.
The adoption of a smokeless powder and of a modern rifle equal in range, precision, and rapidity of fire to the best now in use will, I hope, not be longer delayed.
A smokeless powder has been developed and a slow-burning powder for guns of large caliber.
Indeed, the use of smokeless powder would seem inevitably to damage the fortunes of the attack.
Smokeless powder will no doubt advantage the defence.
It does not seem likely that smokeless powder will create any very important change, except in siege operations.
And after a little while the far, dry, accentless report of smokeless powder announced that the opening of the season had been resumed and the Lesser Children were dying fast in the glory of a perfect day.
The range has been increased by the perfecting of the structure of the guns, the use of nickel steel in the manufacture of projectiles, and the employment of smokeless powder of immense explosive force.
Owing to smokeless powder, batteries of artillery are more exposed to the fire both of the enemy's artillery and of sharpshooters.
The propelling force is a charge of seven ounces of smokeless powder.
The big gun turned out to be a 16-centimeter converted bronze piece, mounted on a pintle in barbette, rifled and using smokeless powder.
Nine hundred pounds of smokeless powder is used to propel the shell, which leaves the muzzle of the gun with a speed of 2,600 feet per second.
In the cartridge that our army uses, only about a tenth of an ounce of smokeless powder is used, but this builds up so heavy a pressure of gas that the bullet is sent speeding out of the gun at a rate of half a mile a second.
With the use of smokeless powder, there is nothing to betray the position of the gun, except the flash at the instant of discharge, and even the flash was hidden by screens from the view of an airplane.
The locomotives had to be silent and smokeless and so a special form of gasolene locomotive was invented to haul the little cars along these miniature railroads to the front lines.
A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services.
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