What is "smokeless"

Usage examples of "smokeless".

They were all running off the new powercast system, and the smokeless, dustless air was almost cruelly brilliant.

Far beyond their range, but not that of the Landisch magazine-rifles, with high-velocity jacketed slugs and smokeless powder.

For example: when sawdust is nitrated, it becomes nitrocellulose, and is used in smokeless powder.

Anthracite is practically smokeless, and was satisfactory to home owners, but they could not get anthracite during the strike, and when the oil burner was installed there was no point in going back to coal.

It may be asserted without the slightest fear of contradiction that there are at least fifty engineering firms in this country who could send forth a road locomotive very nearly noiseless, very nearly smokeless, certainly sparkless, capable of running up and down hill on our smooth and capital roads, perfectly under control, not in the least alarming to horses, and able to draw two or more trucks or passenger cars round all their devious windings at a speed at least equal to that of a moderate trot--say eight miles an hour.

He found that smokeless power is produced by colloiding nitrocellulose with special solvents followed by a drying process and that the nitroglycerine bonded with the nitrocellulose and would not separate in storage.

Other methods of attack must be found or attacks must be abandoned, for smokeless powder, quick-firing guns, and modern rifles make it all odds on the defence!

Talana Hill and Modder River have shown also, though perhaps in a less tragic degree, that what with the long range of modern artillery fire, and what with the difficulty of locating infantry who are using smokeless powder, it is necessary that officers commanding batteries should be provided with the coolest heads and the most powerful glasses of any men in the service, for a responsibility which will become more and more terrific rests upon their judgment.

With a flat, tinlike roar that sounded up through the soles of their boots and a bright, smokeless flash the drum-like port was blasted away from its moorings.

It had been absolutely necessary for her to provide herself with warm bedclothes, and to add to the store of coals by purchasing anthracite coal, which is almost smokeless.

The wizard lifted his hand and pointed, and the chandeliers came alive with light, a soft golden glow that was flameless and smokeless, yet had no apparent power source.

With two slim masts, no superstructure, and telescoping smokestacks, she could run hull down, burning smokeless Cardiff coal, barely visible even in daylight, hiding behind the curve of the Earth.

It was a dirty bomb, made of a paint can packed with smokeless powder and roofing tacks.

She made her reports amusing, to liven evening campfire - for Dowell had conceded that a careful, smokeless fire would not be easily seen in the thick woods.

They would make a place for him there, beneath smokeless skies where primitive equalities prevailed.