guncotton
a highly explosive nitrocellulose, made by breaking down clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
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How to use guncotton in a sentence
And suddenly guncotton produced his will-o-the-wisp trick, which completed the illusion.
My Austrian Love | Maxime ProvostThese are crumbling in places, and the Pioneers might destroy the bastion and breach the wall with a bag or two of guncotton.
The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund CandlerThe soldiers formed a square round the gun, charged it with guncotton, shouted 'Stand back!'
With Steyn and De Wet | Philip PienaarFor this purpose electric fuzes (for powder) or electric detonators (for guncotton or other high explosive) are employed.
Some very good bombs were made from jam-tins with a wad of guncotton, and filled up with all manner of missiles.
"Over There" with the Australians | R. Hugh Knyvett
British Dictionary definitions for guncotton
/ (ˈɡʌnˌkɒtən) /
cellulose nitrate containing a relatively large amount of nitrogen: used as an explosive
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