Guncotton is valid Scrabble Word

Is guncotton a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for GUNCOTTON in dictionary:

NOUN:

an explosive made by saturating cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids
a highly nitrated form of nitrocellulose, used as an explosive.
form of cellulose nitrate used as an explosive
a nitric acid ester; used in lacquers and explosives

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

nitrocellulose; an explosive highly nitrated product used chiefly in smokeless powder
See under Gun.

Words related to GUNCOTTON

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Words that contain GUNCOTTON

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How to use GUNCOTTON in a sentence

Their first attempt failed owing to a defective fuse, but with the next gun-cotton charge a fracture was made so deep that the howitzer will never be able to fire a shot again.
It was a four and a half pound shell, filled with gun-cotton slabs and shrapnel bullets packed in sawdust.
Even in November it was necessary to preserve this gun-cotton from the ardour of the sun.
In fact, it was by means of electricity that fire was to be set to this mass of gun-cotton.
With them they brought a ton and a half of guncotton.
We shall only describe the manufacture of the two forms known as soluble and insoluble, and shall refer to them under their better known names of gun-cotton and collodion-cotton.
For instance, a torpedo, even placed at a long distance, may explode a line of torpedoes charged with gun-cotton.
The effect of gun-cotton in mines is very nearly the same as that of dynamite for equal weights.
It is then easy to calculate how much of the wet gun-cotton must be placed in the hopper of the press in order to obtain a block of compressed cotton of the required weight.
The formation of large-sized blocks of gun-cotton was the invention of Mr A.

Abel that the instability of the gun-cotton first manufactured in England and Austria was chiefly due to these compounds.
When hot currents of air are made to pass over the surface of gun-cotton, the gun-cotton becomes electrified.
What has been said as to gunpowder presses applies still more to those for gun-cotton, although the latter are always hydraulic presses.
It is more used in this connection than the higher nitrate gun-cotton.
The residue is dried and weighed, and equals the gun-cotton present.
This will give the gun-cotton, and the difference between this last weight and the previous one will give the collodion-cotton.

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