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Nitrocellulose (also
known as
cellulose nitrate,
flash paper,
flash cotton,
guncotton,
pyroxylin and
flash string,
depending on form) is a
highly flammable...
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hundred shots with the more
powerful guncotton.
Small arms
could not
withstand the
pressures generated by
guncotton.
After one of the
Austrian factories...
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Guncotton was more
powerful than gunpowder, but at the same time was
somewhat more unstable. John
Taylor obtained an
English patent for
guncotton; and...
- (1838) at the same time as
William Robert Grove and his
discoveries of
guncotton and ozone. He also
created the
concept of
geochemistry in 1838. Schönbein...
- 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
Stowmarket Guncotton Explosion happened on 11
August 1871 at the
Prentices Guncotton Factory in Stowmarket, Suffolk. It was
blown up by two m****ive...
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propellant in 1889. It
consists of (by weight) 58% nitroglycerin, 37%
guncotton (nitrocellulose) and 5%
petroleum jelly.
Using acetone as a solvent, it...
- wet and dry 2,300 tons of
picric acid, 500 tons of TNT, and 10 tons of
guncotton. The
resultant Halifax Explosion killed approximately 2,000
people and...
- and
steel filings.
Inside the m**** was
inserted a two-ounce (60 g) dry
guncotton booster, plus a
detonator attached to a
thirty seconds fuse. Alternatively...
- laboratory-school he had
started in 1846.
There he
worked with the
explosive material guncotton and
other nitrosulphates. His
student Ascanio Sobrero was the discoverer...
