Form of nitrocellulose used in small arms cartridges
Ball propellant (trademarked as Ball Powder by Olin Corporation and marketed as spherical powder by Hodgdon Powder Company[1]) is a form of nitrocellulose used in small arms cartridges. Ball propellant can be manufactured more rapidly with greater safety and less expense than extruded propellants.
Ball propellant was first used to load military small arms cartridges during World War II and has been manufactured for sale to handloading civilians since 1960.
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cartridges. Ballpropellant can be manufactured more rapidly with greater safety and less expense than extruded propellants. Ballpropellant was first used...
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was a British-born American chemist remembered as the inventor of ballpropellant and as a donor or seller to the art antiquities collections of Yale...
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brand name, to GIAT (of Versailles, France). Olin transferred its ballpropellant manufacturing plant to General Dynamics subsidiary St. Marks Powder...
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means "small ball". Bullets are available singly (as in muzzle-loading and cap and ball firearms) but are more often packaged with propellant as a cartridge...
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a projectile. In guns, internal ballistics covers the time from the propellant's ignition until the projectile exits the gun barrel. The study of internal...
tradeoff. A faster-burning propellant may accelerate a lighter projectile to higher speeds if the same amount of propellant is used. Within a gun, the...
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paper cartridges that combined the projectiles with the black powder propellant charge to facilitate rapid loading of the weapon. Like any other paper...
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