How To Use Ballistite In A Sentence
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The leading representatives of this class of propulsive explosives, or 'smokeless powders' are ballistite and cordite, the technology of which will be found fully discussed in special manuals of the subject.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
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A gramme of ballistite generates 615 c.c. of permanent gases, and gives rise to 1,365 grm. units of heat.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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~ -- Nobel's powder, known as ballistite, originally consisted of a camphorated blasting gelatine, and was made of 10 parts of camphor in
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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In the case of cordite, as also with ballistite, a considerable quantity of aqueous vapour has to be added to the permanent gases formed.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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In 1888, Alfred Nobel took smokeless powder production to a new plateau by using nitroglycerin to gelatinize nitrocellulose, thereby producing a new commercial smokeless powder named ‘Ballistite.’
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He later made new discoveries - primarily blasting gelatin and ballistite - and his industrial enterprises, as well as his fortune, grew.
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The ballistite made in Germany contained more nitro-cellulose, and the finished powder was coated with graphite.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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In 1875 Nobel created blasting gelatin, a colloidal suspension of nitrocellulose in glycerin, and in 1887 ballistite, a nearly smokeless powder especially suitable for propelling military projectiles.
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
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Nobel was the owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, including the blasting cap, blasting gelatin, and ballistite, one of the first nitroglycerine smokeless powders to be used as a substitute for black gunpowder.
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As might perhaps be anticipated from the higher heat of ballistite, its erosive power is slightly greater than that of cordite, while the erosive power of cordite is again slightly greater than that of brown prismatic.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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In 1875 Nobel created blasting gelatin, a colloidal suspension of nitrocellulose in glycerin, and in 1887 ballistite, a nearly smokeless powder especially suitable for propelling military projectiles.
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He continued to develop new explosive devices: blasting gelatin in 1875, and in 1887 a smokeless blasting powder called ballistite, which influenced weapons design for the next quarter century.
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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~ -- In the case of ballistite the treatment is the same, except that when it is in a very finely granulated condition it need not be cut up.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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Nitro-glycerine is also largely used in the manufacture of smokeless powders, such as cordite, ballistite, and several others.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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Smokeless powders came into use, the explosive properties of picric acid were discovered, and melanite, ballistite, and cordite appeared in the last quarter of the century, so that by 1890 nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin-base powders had generally replaced black powder as a propellant.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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(of vulcanite), fixed at the bottom of the tanks, into rubber buckets, and is ready for use in the preparation of dynamite, or any of the various forms of gelatine compounds, smokeless powders, &c., such as cordite, ballistite, and many others.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
