ballistite

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Meaning

1. noun A smokeless propellant made from nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine without a solvent, developed in the 1880s and still used, e.g., for artillery rockets like Grad.

Similar words

atlas powder bobbinite nitromagnite carbonite amberite grisoutine abelite niter dynamite baratol

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