slow-burning powder
1Slow match — or match cord is the very slow burning cord or twine fuse used by early gunpowder musketeers, artillerymen, and soldiers to ignite matchlock muskets, cannons, and petards. Slow matches were most suitable for use around black powder weapons… …
2Slow match — Match Match (m[a^]ch), n. [OE. macche, F. m[ e]che, F. m[ e]che, fr. L. myxa a lamp nozzle, Gr. my xa mucus, nostril, a lamp nozzle. Cf. {Mucus}.] Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes… …
3Pebble powder — Pebble Peb ble, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple, mote. See {Stone}.] 1. A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. The pebbles on the hungry beach. Shak. [1913… …
4pebble powder — noun : gunpowder or black powder pressed and cut into large cubical grains so as to make it slow burning …
5Smokeless powder — is the name given to a number of propellants used in firearms and artillery which produce negligible smoke when fired, unlike the older gunpowder (black powder) which they replaced. The basis of the term smokeless is that the combustion products… …
6Internal ballistics — Internal ballistics, a subfield of ballistics, is the study of a projectile s behavior from the time its propellant s igniter is initiated until it exits the gun barrel. The study of internal ballistics is important to designers and users of… …
7artillery — /ahr til euh ree/, n. 1. mounted projectile firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms. 2. the troops or the branch of an army concerned with the use and service of such weapons. 3.… …
8shell — less, adj. shell like, adj. /shel/, n. 1. a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk. 2. any of various objects resembling such a covering, as in shape or in being more or… …
97 mm-08 Remington — Infobox Firearm Cartridge name=7mm 08 Remington type=Rifle origin=flagcountry|United States designer= Remington Arms design date=1980 parent=.308 Winchester case type=Rimless, Bottleneck bullet=0.284 neck=0.315 shoulder=0.454 base=0.470 rim dia=0 …
10Benjamin Chew Tilghman — (1821 1901) was an US soldier and inventor. He is best known as the inventor of the process of sandblasting. Early life He was born in Philadelphia on October 26, 1821, the third child of Benjamin and Anne Marie (McMurtie). His father was… …
