double-base gunpowder

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Double-base powder is an explosive propellant that contains both nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin as its main ingredients. This distinguishes it from single-base powder, which uses only nitrocellulose as its essential component.12

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… until the 20th century, when double-base gunpowder (40 percent nitroglycerin, 60 percent nitrocellulose) came into use. Other modern solid propellants are cast perchlorate (using perchlorate as oxidizer and various oils or rubbers as fuel) and composite propellants (using a plastic binder with ammonium picrate, potassium nitrate, or sodium nitrate). There…
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… until the 20th century, when double-base gunpowder (40 percent nitroglycerin, 60 percent nitrocellulose) came into use. Other modern solid propellants are cast perchlorate (using perchlorate as oxidizer and various oils or rubbers as fuel) and composite propellants (using a plastic binder with ammonium picrate, potassium nitrate, or sodium nitrate). There…
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