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2. Smokeless powder - Wikipedia

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   Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder. Because of their similar use, both the original black powder formulation and the smokeless propellant which replaced it are commonly described as gunpowder. The combustion products of smokeless ...

3. Cordite - Wikipedia

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   Cordite. 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 classified as a low explosive because of its slow burning rates and consequently low brisance [not verified in body].

4. Hodgdon Powder Company - Wikipedia

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   Hodgdon Powder Company. The Hodgdon Powder Company began in 1952 as B.E. Hodgdon, Inc., and has become a major distributor of smokeless powder for the ammunition industry, as well as for individuals who load their own ammunition by hand. The company's corporate office and manufacturing facilities are located in Kansas, United States.

5. Indiana Army Ammunition Plant - Wikipedia

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   Poacher House, building 112–2. The Indiana Army Ammunition Plant was an Army manufacturing plant built in 1941 between Charlestown and Jeffersonville, Indiana. It consisted of three areas within two separate but attached manufacturing plants: Indiana Ordnance Works Plant 1 (IOW#1): (3,564.71 acres) made smokeless powder.

6. .30-40 Krag - Wikipedia

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   1,974 ft/s (602 m/s) 1,731 ft⋅lbf (2,347 J) Source (s): Hodgdon [ 2] The .30-40 Krag, also known as the .30 U.S. and .30 Army, was a rifle cartridge developed in the early 1890s to provide the U.S. armed forces with a smokeless powder cartridge suited for use with modern small-bore repeating rifles to be selected in the 1892 small arm trials.

7. IMR Legendary Powders - Wikipedia

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   IMR Legendary Powders is a line of smokeless powders which are popularly used in sporting and military/police firearm cartridges. The initials 'IMR' stand for Improved Military Rifle powder. IMR powders makes a line of various types of smokeless powder suitable for loading many cartridges for rifles, handguns, and shotguns. [ 1][ 2]

8. 8×50mmR Lebel - Wikipedia

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   8×50mmR Lebel. The 8×50mmR Lebel (8mm Lebel) (designated as the 8 × 51 R Lebel by the C.I.P. [ 3]) rifle cartridge was the first smokeless powder cartridge to be made and adopted by any country. It was introduced by France in 1886. Formed by necking down the 11×59mmR Gras black powder cartridge, the smokeless 8mm Lebel cartridge started a ...

9. Will the new Panasonic battery plant save this Kansas village ...

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   They came to work at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, built after the attack to become the era’s largest smokeless powder and propellant plant in the world. Riedhart has in effect lived for 12 ...