Guncotton in sentence

3 examples of Guncotton in a sentence

A hole was to be made large enough to hold fifty pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is four times that of gunpowder.

In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.

But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.

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