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cordite
cordite (ˈkɔːdaɪt) [f. cord + -ite.] A smokeless explosive, introduced in 1889, so called from its cord-like appearance.1889 Daily News 2 Oct. 5/3 The new explosive, known by the name of ‘cordite’ on account of its curiously string-like appearance. 1891 Pall Mall G. 30 May 7/2 A velocity of no less ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Cordite
In Great Britain this was known as Cordite SC (= Solventless Cordite), and it required production facilities separate from classical cordite. or Cordite N and NQ. wikipedia.org
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cordite
cordite/ˈkɔ:daɪt; `kɔrdaɪt/ n[U]smokeless explosive substance used in bullets, shells, bombs, etc 柯达炸药; (柯达)无烟火药. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Explosive ROF
In World War I, the name used in the UK for government-owned explosives factories was National Explosives Factory; the cordite factory at Gretna was known Explosive ROFs specialised in producing either high-explosives, such as TNT (trinitrotoluene) or RDX; or propellants, such as cordite, but there were minor wikipedia.org
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Aruvankadu
Industry It houses the cordite factory, one of the 40 Indian Ordnance Factories. There is also an apprentice college affiliated to the cordite factory. wikipedia.org
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axite
axite (ˈæksaɪt) [f. -ax in bonax, primax, names of sporting cartridges manufactured by Messrs. Kynoch (I.C.I. Metals Ltd.) + -ite of cordite.] A smokeless powder for sporting rifles, composed of strip cordite in which a little of the gun-cotton is replaced by potassium nitrate.1904 in Trade Mark Jrn... Oxford English Dictionary
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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 A Pictorial Record of the Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath. Wareham: Finial Publishing. Hale, John, (2012). Cordite! wikipedia.org
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Holton Heath
The area includes a trading estate, on the site of the former Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, (RNCF). The cordite factory at Holton Heath closed after World War 2 and the site became an Admiralty research establishment. wikipedia.org
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ROF Ranskill
Background In 1939 to increase the production of solventless cordite for WW2 alongside R.O.F. It was the last Cordite-producing Royal Ordnance Factory to be built in the UK in World War II and was the smallest of the three Cordite ROFs, covering wikipedia.org
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.500/450 Magnum Black Powder Express
loaded with mild loadings of cordite, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the Black powder version. Not to be left behind Holland and Holland followed suit, loading the .500/450 Magnum BPE with cordite to create the .500/450 Nitro Express. wikipedia.org
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'Refusing to be published, refusing even to perish': Amelia Dale ...
The first line is actually part of a well-known sentence that means "一唱雄鸡天下白"(yi chang xiongji tianxia bai), that means 'the singing of a cock makes the whole under-heaven white', actually meaning that when the cock crows the day breaks. But I only take the first three characters of that sentence and turn the "一 ... cordite.org.au
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.577/500 No 2 Black Powder Express
A -inch variant would later be loaded with cordite to become the .577/500 Nitro Express. cordite, carefully balanced through trial to replicate the ballistics of the Black powder version. wikipedia.org
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1895 vote of no confidence in the Rosebery ministry
The motion was to reduce the salary of the Secretary of State for War as a censure over deficient supply of cordite to the Army. Cordite Cordite was a new form of explosive which had only come into use a few years before 1895, and the Army was in the process of equipping with it wikipedia.org
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Defence Industries Limited
In 1941 DIL also set up a facility in Windsor, Ontario, to manufacture carbamite, a component of cordite; other explosive components were manufactured cordite and TNT Cornwall, made mustard gas Petawawa Works, later Chalk River Laboratories Manitoba Winnipeg, manufacturing explosives and cordite wikipedia.org
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.455 Webley
All subsequent .455 designs used cordite propellant. The propellant was cordite or nitro-cellulose. wikipedia.org
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