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Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in Britain since 1889 to replace black powder as a military firearm propellant. Like...

Cordites is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species: Cordites armillata (Thomson, 1868) Cordites pubescens...

The Royal Naval Cordite Factory, Holton Heath (RNCF) was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset, England, in World War I to manufacture cordite for the Royal Navy...

Martini–Henry service rifle, originally loaded with blackpowder but later used cordite propellant. The various rifle cartridges fired a 480 gr (31 g) bullet made...

powder. All subsequent .455 designs used cordite propellant. In 1894 some Mark I cartridges were loaded with cordite (identified by a case cannelure and "C"...

confidence in the Rosebery ministry of 21 June 1895, also known as the Cordite vote, was the occasion on which the Liberal Government of the Earl of Rosebery...

Navy had its own factory at the Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, in Dorset, England. A large cordite factory was also built in Canada during World...

committee's modification of ballistite", but this was soon abbreviated to cordite.[citation needed] After unsuccessful negotiations, in 1893, Nobel sued...

heritage-listed military installation and former munitions factory at Cordite Avenue, Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia. It was added to the Australian...

successful big game hunting cartridge. The first was the development of cordite in the UK in 1889 and second the development of the Magnum Mauser 98 action...

Cordite was very sensitive to variations of temperature, and acid propagation/cordite deterioration would take place at a very rapid rate. Cordite MD...

is also connected via the Nigiri Mountain Railway (NMR). It houses the cordite factory, one of the 40 Indian Ordnance Factories. It is one of the oldest...

narrow shoulder of the cartridge case. The cartridge was designed to use cordite which was made in long strands – hence the tapered shape of the case, which...

three were removed from service in 1920 and served as proving guns for cordite tests. Two were scrapped in 1933 and the last one survived until it was...

Cordites pubescens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by James Thomson in 1868, originally under the genus Apamauta. It...

general case type as the .500 Black Powder Express but was loaded with cordite instead of black powder and appeared on the scene sometime in the 1890s...

lengths with smokeless cordite. The .450/400 23⁄8 inch Nitro Express was loaded with a 400 gr. RN bullet with 42 or 43 grains of cordite, and meant for use...

thereafter sticks of cordite bound together with an igniter pad, if necessary, in a cloth bag, usually silk. The "stick" nature of cordite gave the cartridges...

explosives, and filling shells and bullets. Munitionettes manufactured cordite and TNT, and those working with TNT were at risk of becoming "Canary Girls...

Ballistite, Cordite, and Rifleite. Ballistite was a stick-type smokeless powder composed of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine. Cordite was a stick-type...