gun-cotton

~Reworked gun-cotton~ does not make such good discs as new pulped gun - cotton, probably because the fibrous tenacity of the gun-cotton has been destroyed by the amount of pressure it has previously undergone, so that when repulped it resembles fine dust, and a long time is required to press it into any prescribed form.

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

Creative and innovative, always interested in new techniques and materials, Siqueiros frequently used pyroxylin, a substance related to gun-cotton, which dries with amazing speed.

The artist as activist: David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974) 2008

Creative and innovative, always interested in new techniques and materials, Siqueiros frequently used pyroxylin, a substance related to gun-cotton, which dries with amazing speed.

The artist as activist: David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896–1974) 2008

It consisted of no less than half a ton of gun-cotton and rifle ammunition, a somewhat unpleasant, but none the less necessary, item of our equipment.

The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009

He fixed in the window of his room a glass tube, in the centre of which he had placed a ball of gun-cotton, which, as you all know, is ordinary cotton-wool, which, from having been steeped in strong acid, is converted into a substance of great explosive power.

Essays 2007

He kept this apparatus going for four-and-twenty hours, and then removed the ‘dusted’ gun-cotton, and dissolved it in alcohol and ether.

Essays 2007

Meanwhile the Ageyl amused us by fixing gun-cotton or gelatine charges about our crossing-place to as many of the rails as we had time to reach, and when our munching camels had been dragged away into safety on the far side of the line, we began, in proper order, to light the fuses, filling the hollow valley with the echoes of repeated bursts.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Arabs told me Newcombe would not sleep except head on rails, and that Hornby would worry the metals with his teeth when gun-cotton failed.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Four Turkish labour battalions they kept busy, patching culverts, relaying sleepers, jointing new rails; and gun-cotton had to come in increasing tons to Wejh to meet their appetites.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

It was our obvious policy to be superior in some one tangible branch; gun-cotton or machine-guns or whatever could be made decisive.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003