Crossword-Solution: NITROCOTTON
We have 1 clue for the answer “NITROCOTTON”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| type of explosive | 4 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "NITROCOTTON"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Often perfumed powder
?
T
?
A
?
L
?
C
Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
CLAT
Hint 3 another clue
BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
21 +1
New Suggestion for "NITROCOTTON"
Related word tools
Sentences with NITROCOTTON (5)
For propellant purposes the nitrocotton is 'gelatinized', either alone or mixed with nitroglycerine, and is then worked up into different forms, such as wire, rods, grains, or tape, when it becomes controllable at will, so that the firing is not dangerous.
Gelignite: nitroglycerine 56 to 63 per cent, nitrocotton 4 per cent, wood-meal 7 per cent, potassium nitrate 27 per cent, calcium carbonate 0.2 per cent.
Triplastite is a plastic high explosive containing 70 per cent nitrotoluenes, 8 per cent nitrocotton, 29 per cent lead nitrate.
Halakite: contains potassium chlorate, ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene or other nitro-body; may contain nitrocotton, sodium nitrate, and wood-meal.
PROPELLANTS FOR SHOT-GUNS Amberite: insoluble nitrocotton 18.6 per cent, nitrates 28 per cent, soluble nitrocotton 46 per cent, vaseline 6 per cent.