1) Explosive 2) Smokeless powder
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Ballistite is a smokeless propellant made from two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. It was developed and patented by Alfred Nobel in the late 19th century. ==The development of smokeless powders== For about a thousand years gunpowder, or black powder (Poudre N, Poudre Noire), as it was also known, was the only practical propella...
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• (n.) A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
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(from the article `explosive`) In 1887 Nobel introduced another of his revolutionary inventions, which he called Ballistite. He mixed 40 percent of a lower nitrogen content, more ... ...or diatomaceous earth. Nitroglycerin plasticizes collodion (a form of nitrocellulose) to form blasting gelatin, a very powerful explosive. Nobel`s ... ...
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Bal'lis·tite noun [ See
Ballista .]
(Chemistry) A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
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Ballistite is a propellant used for launching grenades.
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