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smokeless powder
noun
- any of various substitutes for ordinary gunpowder that give off little or no smoke, especially one composed wholly or mostly of guncotton.
smokeless powder
noun
- any one of a number of explosives that burn with relatively little smoke. They consist mainly of nitrocellulose and are used as propellants
Word History and Origins
Origin of smokeless powder1
Example Sentences
There is no known direct link between these particular shipments of smokeless powder and the Ukrainian battlefield, and in customs paperwork Poly Technologies described the powder as being “for assembly of foreign-style hunting cartridges.”
He also bought a container of smokeless powder that could be used to make a bomb, and gave it to Farook.
An FBI affidavit said the device was made of three galvanized steel pipes and smokeless powder and was attached to a remote-control toy car.
Marquez faces five charges, including supplying the weapons and smokeless powder contained in an explosive device found at the scene of the attack, plus marriage fraud.
This catalog of explosive scents includes TNT, smokeless powder, potassium chlorate, C-4 plastic explosive, detonating cord, and ammonium nitrate.
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