Cordite is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORDITE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a smokeless explosive used in guns, made from guncotton, nitroglycerine, and petroleum jelly
• a smokeless explosive made from nitrocellulose, nitroglycerine, and petroleum jelly, used in ammunition.
• explosive used in guns and bombs
• explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an explosive powder

Words related to CORDITE

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Words that contain CORDITE

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How to use CORDITE in a sentence

• The Turkish snipers were still busy, and the sharp crack of cordite echoed from scores of different hiding-places along the hills.
• A dense black smoke was seen in the starboard battery, whether from coal or torpedo cordite I could not say.
• Some cordite cartridges were lying outside of it and these went off with a great flare.
• Cordite was blazing, shells and bombs bursting, and splinters and whole shells flying everywhere in the vicinity.
• Curve showing relation between Pressures of Cordite and Black Powder, by Professor Vivian Lewes 40.
• The mould is inserted in a specially designed press, and the cordite paste forced through a die with one or more holes.
• In case of the finer cordite, such as the rifle cordite, the next operation is blending.
• With cordite of a larger diameter, the cord is cut into lengths of 12 inches.
• Every lot of cordite from each manufacturer has a consecutive number, numbers representing the size and one or more initial letters to identify the manufacturer.
• The finished cordite resembles a cord of gutta-percha, and its colour varies from light to dark brown.
• For the same muzzle velocity a smaller charge of cordite than gunpowder is required owing to the greater amount of gas produced.
• Cordite is very slow in burning compared to gunpowder.
• The rate at which cordite explodes depends in a measure upon the diameter of the cords, and the pressure developed upon its mechanical state.
• With respect to the action of cordite upon guns, Sir A.
• The surface of the barrel in the case of cordite appears to be washed away smoothly by the gases, and not pitted and eaten into as with black powder.
• With regard to the effect of heat upon cordite, there is some difference of opinion.
• This powder, it is evident, has very many very excellent qualities, and considerable advantages over cordite.
• Cordite raised the temperature of the rifle 270 deg.

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