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smokeless powder |
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smokeless powder: see explosive explosive, substance that undergoes decomposition or combustion with great rapidity, evolving much heat and producing a large volume of gas. The reaction products fill a much greater volume than that occupied by the original material and exert an enormous pressure, ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He covers Mendeleev's best-known contribution to science, but the author concentrates on other contributions that include designing the Russian tariff of 1891, creating smokeless gunpowder, consulting on oil development in Baku, and introducing the metric system to the Bussian Empire. Task force members said they also expected to provide money for a study to determine whether to add chemical identification markers, called taggants, to black and smokeless gunpowder. |
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