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• double-base powder — noun : an explosive powder or propellant that contains nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin as the essential components compare single base powder …   Useful english dictionary

• propellant — /preuh pel euhnt/, n. 1. a propelling agent. 2. the charge of explosive used to propel the projectile from a gun. 3. a substance, usually a mixture of fuel and oxidizer, for propelling a rocket. 4. a compressed inert gas that serves to dispense… …   Universalium

• Rocket propellant — is mass that is stored, usually in some form of propellant tank, prior to being used as the propulsive mass that is ejected from a rocket engine in the form of a fluid jet to produce thrust.Chemical rocket propellants are most commonly used,… …   Wikipedia

• single-base powder — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun : an explosive powder or propellant that contains nitrocellulose as the only essential component compare double base powder …   Useful english dictionary

• Ordnance QF 18 pounder — Australian gun crew in action in the Ypres sector, 28 September 1917 Type Field gun Place& …   Wikipedia

• Cordite — Not to be confused with Cordaites, the extinct tree. A stick of cordite from World War II …   Wikipedia

• Ordnance QF 25 pounder — Gun shown mounted on its firing platform, King Street West, Dundas, Hamilton, Canada. Type Field gun/Howitzer …   Wikipedia

• 5.56×45mm NATO — 5.56x45mm NATO with measurement Type Rifle Place of origin …   Wikipedia

• Rheinmetall 120-mm-Glattrohrkanone — Leopard 2A4 mit L/44 Kanone. An der Rohrmündung der seit 1991 am Leopard 2 verbaute Feldjustierspiegel Die Rheinmetall 120 mm Glattrohrkanone oder kurz Rh120 ist eine Glattrohrkanone im Kaliber 120 Millimeter, die ursprünglich für den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• nitroglycerin — /nuy treuh glis euhr in/, n. Chem., Pharm. a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water soluble liquid, C3H5N3O9, prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other… …   Universalium

• Smokeless powder — is the name given to a number of propellants used in firearms and artillery which produce negligible smoke when fired, unlike the older gunpowder (black powder) which they replaced. The basis of the term smokeless is that the combustion products… …   Wikipedia