Cordite in a sentence

Cordite (Mk I) and Cordite MD The original Abel-Dewar formulation was soon superseded, as it caused excessive gun barrel erosion.

Cordite SC was produced in different shapes and sizes, so the particular geometry of Cordite SC was indicated by the use of letters or numbers, or both, after the SC.

Cordite was very sensitive to variations of temperature, and acid propagation/cordite deterioration would take place at a very rapid rate.

The first step toward earning this Missile Expansion is firing a Super Missile at the Cordite wall hang that is near the Chozo Lore entries.

Everyday I was putting shells into that gun, then the cordite before firing ashore,” the former gunner said sat in his wheelchair in Arromanches this afternoon.

After advising Weizmann to patent his invention, which he did, Rintoul brought it to the notice of Sir Frederick Nathan, an Adviser to the Admiralty on cordite supply.

A new cordite factory at Waltham Abbey and two additional ROF's ROF Ranskill and ROF Wrexham were also opened.

As a consequence of his patent claims, Nobel was eventually involved in a patent infringement lawsuit over cordite.

Bags of cordite were also stocked and kept locally, creating a total breakdown of safety design features.

Cordite factories typically employed women (Cook 2006) who put their lives at risk as they packed the shells.

Cordite MD was developed to reduce barrel wear, its formula being 65% nitrocellulose, 30% nitroglycerine, and 5% petroleum jelly.

Cordite RDB was later found to become unstable if stored too long.

Cordite was also used in the detonation system of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima in August 1945.

From this evidence, a major part of the blame may be laid on lax handling of the cordite propellant for the shells of the main guns.

However, the sulfur content of traditional gunpowders caused corrosion problems with Cordite Mk I and this led to the introduction of a range of sulfur-free gunpowders, of varying grain sizes.

In practice drills, cordite could not be supplied to the guns rapidly enough through the hoists and hatches.

MoS Agency Factories and ICI Nobel in World War II The British Government set up additional cordite factories, not under Royal Ordnance Factory control but as Agency Factories run on behalf of the Ministry of Supply (MoS).

Production quantities Large quantities of cordite were manufactured in both World Wars for use by the military.

Staff, pp. 23–24, 43 Apart from the cordite handling, the battle was mostly inconclusive, though both the British flagship Lion and Seydlitz were severely damaged.

The spherical bullets are visible in the sectioned shell (top right), and the cordite propellant in the brass cartridge is simulated by a bundle of cut string (top left).