ballistite 的定义
Chemistry.
- a smokeless powder consisting of nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose chiefly in a 40 to 60 percent ratio: used as a solid fuel for rockets.
更多ballistite例句
- Ballistite: equal parts of nitroglycerine and soluble nitrocotton with some mineral jelly.
- It was in the beginning of 1888 that he invented his well-known smokeless powder, or ballistite.
- Ballistite was adopted by the Italian government in 1890 as a military powder.
- The powder used with the 12-1/2-pounder was that known as 'ballistite.'
- For ballistite the nitrocellulose is beaten up with nitroglycerine in water.