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

Apr 30, 2015 · TLDR: Avoid depicting cordite, use gunpowder as a default, reference propellant to look like a smarty pants. When articles debunk common firearm tropes in fiction, they usually …

cordite, a propellant of the double-base type, so called because of its customary but not universal cordlike shape. It was invented by British chemists Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick …

Cordite was used in "Little Boy", the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. A modified anti-aircraft cannon barrel using cordite fired one subcritical piece of U-235 at …

Jul 13, 2018 · A “gun-triggered” fission bomb, barometric-pressure sensors initiated the explosion of four cordite charges, propelling a small “bullet” of enriched uranium the length of a fixed …

Jun 12, 2021 · In my post Cordite #1, the connection between cordite and synthetic leather was explored with the T model Ford, the car that put the world on wheels. In this post we ask why …

Feb 23, 2023 · Cordite was used as a detonation system for the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Cordite is a smokeless propellant developed in the UK in 1889 as a …

Aug 22, 2023 · The specifications reveal the use of four canisters of cordite (synthetic propellant) in the Little Boy (gun type uranium device).

The short version is that Dewar invented cordite: a smokeless replacement for gunpowder used by British soldiers in the trenches. Yet the story is a bit more complicated. Since the eighth …

Feb 13, 2017 · In today's post, we will study how Britain managed to obtain a similar smokeless powder: cordite. As we saw previously, the French had managed to invent a smokeless …