I need not trouble you now with the way it is prepared; it is called guncotton (6).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60] Reference

The guncotton was slightly yellowish in colour and brittle in texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Change the World !] Reference

There is, however, no solution of the guncotton and practically no tendency of the grains to cohere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

There is a guncotton thud, some far-off shift or heave that is also a local sensation, a hollow body sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

"They did all of those things later, but their original bundle came from bootlegging, guncotton, and this gin mill.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Looks like somebody stacked a couple of bales of guncotton in the elevator shaft and touched it off with a blasting cap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Shell could not vanquish it, so a charge of guncotton was exploded immediately beneath it; then the old warship gave a lurch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

A similar series was carried out with the guncotton in the condition in which it was directly obtained from the ester reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

With them they brought a ton and a half of guncotton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire] Reference

In composition it is practically guncotton and so a high explosive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Film Mystery] Reference

Sooner than that, I would sweep out the guncotton shed, or be one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Barbara] Reference

Ping pong balls are made of camphored nitrocellulose, ie. guncotton.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Spot A Psychopath] Reference

Here guncotton, exploded in the open, forms the most appropriate source of sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

These are some of the physical reasons why guncotton might be regarded as a promising fog-signal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

It is made of guncotton and nitroglycerine and acetone is one of the chemicals required in its manufacture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights] Reference

'Only fourteen pounds o' nitroglycerine, or cordite, or dynamite, or guncotton, or whatever 'tis they packs into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference

The largest percentage of explosives used in modern gunnery are those formed of nitrated cellulose -- guncotton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights] Reference

From these experiments it appeared that the guncotton and cotton-powder were practically equal as producers of sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

Blocks of buildings were blown up with powder, guncotton, and dynamite, or torn down by men armed with axes and ropes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror] Reference

You see the guncotton has gone off, but not even the hottest part of the wire is now hot enough to fire the gunpowder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemical History of a Candle] Reference

And I have here some pieces of paper which are prepared like the guncotton (7), and imbued with bodies containing oxygen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60] Reference

I have here a little gunpowder and some guncotton; even these things differ in the conditions under which they will burn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemical History of a Candle] Reference

A hole was to be made large enough to hold fifty pounds of guncotton, whose expansive force is four times that of gunpowder.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference

Explosives, such as gunpowder and guncotton, are also ignited by the electric spark from an induction coil or the incandescence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Electricity] Reference

All the machinery's still in place and some of the storage rooms even have guncotton in them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Paper prepared like guncotton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60] Reference

So I conceived of an engine employing guncotton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

T.N.T. guncotton.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Large Collection of Incendiary Information (Part II)] Reference

(guncotton).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

| | guncotton | | | |.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference