a smokeless, slow-burning powder composed of 30 to 58 percent nitroglycerin, 37 to 65 percent nitrocellulose, and 5 to 6 percent mineral jelly.
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It’s not even gunshot residue on the hands of your prime suspect, but there is a distinct whiff of cordite in the air which may be suggesting something.
By now the air in the room was awful, hanging with the smell of cordite, lit only by the muzzle flashes.
Its weight is staggering, and it shoots a solid ball, backed up by a fearful charge of cordite.
Up another gangway enough cordite to blow up the whole of Liverpool was being gingerly carried in small cases.
His feet were scorched with burning cordite, and momentarily he released his grip of his enemy's throat, which he had seized.
A bursting shell had started a fire among some cordite charges in the casemate.
A high velocity cordite rifle is dangerous to the country people, and some rifle firing black powder should be used.