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Encyclopedia Britannica



PLOSIVES

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 279 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PLOSIVES .)
The explosive cordite is adopted in the
British
  service; it derives the name from its
appearance
  as
cord
  in short lengths, the
composition
  being squeezed in a viscous state through the hole in a die, and the cordite is designated in
size
  by the number ' of hundredths of an inch in the
diameter
  of the hole. Thus the cordite,
size
  30, of the range table has been squeezed through a hole 0.30 in.
diameter
 .
The thermochemical properties of the constituents of an explosive will assign an upper limit to the
volume
 , temperature and pressure of the gas produced by the
combustion
 ; but much experiment is required in addition. Sir Andrew
Noble
  has published some of his results in the Phil. Trans., 19051906 and following years.


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