What is "guncotton"

Usage examples of "guncotton".

In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.

But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.

She had no idea if guncotton lost its ginger over the decades the way black powder did, but the C-4 plastique sealed safe inside the airtight warheads of the big 40 mm Bofor rounds should be strong as ever.

NG 32 sodium nitrate 28 woodmeal 10 ammonium oxalate 29 guncotton 1 2.

NG 57 potassium nitrate 9 woodmeal 9 ammonium oxalate 12 guncotton 3 6.

NG 32 potassium nitrate 27 woodmeal 10 ammonium oxalate 30 guncotton 1 14.

Give me a few sunny days, and I can start producing guncotton and dynamite in under a week.

Brady looked nervously up the hill as his assistant washed the plate in the collodion solution, a mixture of guncotton and sulfuric ether and alcohol.

Around the fuse department, where all day girls and women handled guncotton and high-explosive powder, a special guard was posted, day and night.

Ethan had cracked the paraffin seal and wet the explosive mix of nitroglycerine and guncotton himself.

For some reason the fuse used for the guncotton was defective, and half an hour elapsed before the explosion destroyed the howitzer.

Which meant that he would have to get the enemy all together one night, then attack with his stash of guncotton bombs, and blow them all to hell.

One of your principal ingredients in nitroglycerine, which every anarchist and revo knows can be mixed with paraffin, guncotton, a few other items to make plastique.

If it was real silver, and not just silver plate, then with some clean sheets and sunshine he could start producing high-explosive guncotton by the pound.

Such terrible explosives as trinitrotoluene occasionally mentioned in the published war reports, as well as many others, have as the principal agent of destructive force guncotton, which is ordinary raw cotton or cellulose treated with nitric or sulphuric acid, though there are, of course, other chemicals used in compounding the various forms of deadly explosives.