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  2. Quarter stick - Wikipedia

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    These salutes typically carry 25 grams of flash powder but in rare occasions have been measured and can contain upward to 30 grams. Like the others, a piece of visco fuse 2 to 4 inches is protruding from the side or end.

  3. Smokeless powder - Wikipedia

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    Finnish smokeless powder. 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.

  4. St. Marks Powder - Wikipedia

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    St. Marks Powder is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems manufacturing ball propellant [1] in Crawfordville, Florida. St. Marks makes about 6,000 tons per year, [2] making it the world's largest producer of propellant. [3] The company is a member of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI). [4]

  5. Hodgdon Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    The C was to indicate the powder burned "cooler" than traditional Improved Military Rifle (IMR) powders. [4] In 1949, he began acquisition of powder salvaged from disassembled Oerlikon 20mm cannon cartridges. This powder resembled IMR 4350 in appearance, and with a slower burning rate, was initially marketed as "4350 Data", and later as 4831. [5]

  6. Ball propellant - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Rolls-Royce Gnome - Wikipedia

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    H.1000 (Mk.101) 1,050 shp (780 kW), first production version for use on later marks of Westland WhirlwindH.1200 1,250 shp (930 kW), the Westland Wessex uses two H.1200, as the Coupled Gnome, with a coupled gearbox with a power limited to 1,550 shp (1,160 kW) at the rotor.

  8. Trojan Powder Company - Wikipedia

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    The Trojan Powder Company was an American manufacturer of explosives founded in 1904 that made nitro-starch powder. It had a manufacturing complex in Allentown, Pennsylvania , and another facility at Roberts Landing near San Lorenzo, California .

  9. Asthmador - Wikipedia

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    Asthmador was a nonprescription treatment for the relief of bronchial asthma made by the R. Schiffmann Company.. It consisted of a mixture of belladonna, stramonium and potassium perchlorate, [1] and was a fine powder intended to be burned and the smoke inhaled.