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Nitrocellulose - Wikipedia
One of its first major uses was as guncotton, a replacement for gunpowder as propellant in firearms. It was also used to replace gunpowder as a low-order ...
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Guncotton | explosive - Britannica
Guncotton is unstable to heat, and even carefully prepared samples will ignite on a brief heating to temperatures in excess of 150 °C (300 °F).
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Gun-Cotton—Its History, Manufacture, Use - U.S. Naval Institute
The cotton is boiled in this solution for eight hours, then drained over night; it is then boiled for eight hours in clear water, again drained, and then ...
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gun-cotton
gun-cotton (ˈgʌnˌkɒt(ə)n) A highly explosive compound discovered in 1846 by Schönbein, and prepared by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids, formerly much used for blasting, but now almost superseded by dynamite. Chemically, gun-cotton is one of a series of nitrates of cellulose differing i...
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Gun Cotton and Collodion | Scientific American
When gun-cotton was first discovered, no other idea was entertained respecting its application than that of superseding gunpowder as an explosive agent.
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Gun Cotton | Flinn Scientific
Concepts · Combustion · Chemical Properties · Flammability. Support · Placing an Order · Payment and Shipping · Returns/Exchanges · Product Guides and Product ...
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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 The factory was under the control of Patent Safety Gun-Cotton Company at the time of the explosion.
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Improvements in Production and Application of Guncotton ... - Nature
II. IN the year 1846 Schönbein discovered guncotton. In the year 1886, that is, forty years later, the French chemist Vieille invented his smokeless powder ...
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Gun Cotton (nitrocellulose) - Periodic Table of Videos - YouTube
We celebrate our second anniversary with a video about cotton - and gun cotton. More links in description below ↓↓↓ Support Periodic Videos ...
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Nitrocellulose with Alcohol - Laboratory Chemicals - Ladd Research
Nitrocellulose with alcohol for use in making collodion solution or lacquers. Quantity supplied is either 50 or 100g by weight of nitrocellulose.
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US597565A - Process of making guncotton - Google Patents
The process of preparing essentially ashfree hydrocellulose for the manufacture of guncotton, consisting in steeping fiber in a bath of heated mineral acid.
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Explosive nitrated carbon compounds | Exhibition chemistry
Guncotton is trinitro-cellulose, or cellulose nitrate. The material is used as a propellant and as a blasting explosive. Guncotton burns at a lower temperature ...
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detonator
detonator (ˈdɛtəneɪtə(r)) [Agent-noun, in L. form, f. dētonāre to detonate: see -or.] Something that detonates; a contrivance for producing detonation, as a percussion-cap; a railway fog-signal. † spec. A detonating gun (obs.): see detonating.1822 Sporting Mag. IX. 156 Somewhat of a contrast this, t...
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British 18-inch torpedo
Year : about 1888
Weight :
Length :
Warhead : wet gun-cotton
Performance : for
Propulsion : Compressed air
Mark V
Used on the River-class and
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collodion
collodion (kəˈləʊdɪən) Also collodium. [mod. f. Gr. κολλώδ-ης glue-like (f. κόλλα glue); in the L. form collodium ‘a term of Paracelsus for some gluey substance’ (Mayne Expos. Lex.).] A solution of gun-cotton in ether, forming a colourless gummy liquid, which dries rapidly in the air, owing to evapo...
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