| 31. | The shell reached " Hood " s rear ammunition magazine and detonated of cordite propellant.
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| 32. | Prior to the invention of cordite, rifles used gunpowder ( black powder ) as a propellant.
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| 33. | Marsh's extensive research essay has been published in " Cordite Poetry Review ".
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| 34. | Bags of cordite were also stocked and kept locally, creating a total breakdown of safety design features.
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| 35. | He would ask them if his chin was black with burnt cordite from his machine guns'breech.
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| 36. | Cordite production ceased following the end of World War I . Shortly afterwards the manufacturing plants were demolished.
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| 37. | "Gerry has got that revolutionary aura, that whiff of cordite, " says one friend.
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| 38. | In practice drills, cordite could not be supplied to the guns rapidly enough through the hoists and hatches.
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| 39. | In 1916, a cordite factory was established in the nearby town of Nobel for the Imperial Munitions Board.
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| 40. | Cordite production at Ranskill commenced in March 1942; and the site took 18 months to reach maximum production.
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