 | 1869 - 340 pages
...modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton,, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost without flame, to inflame with great rapidity...mode of applying heat, the circumstances attending such application of heat, and the mechanical condition of the explosive agent, are modi-i fied.* The... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1869 - 658 pages
...modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost without flame, to inflame with great rapidity,...mode of applying heat, the circumstances attending such application of heat, and the mechanical condition of the explosive agent, are modified*. The character... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost without flame, to inflame with great rapidity...mode of applying heat; the circumstances attending such application of heat, and the mechanical condition of the explosive agent, are modified.* The character... | |
 | Henry Watts - 1872 - 1272 pages
...about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may bo made to burn very slowly and almost without flume, to inflame with great rapidity but without development...the mechanical conditions of the explosive agent are modified. In general, the explosion is more violent and the combustion more complete in proportion... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost without flame ; to inflame with great rapidity,...violent destructive action, according as the mode 50G DEVELOPMENT OF FORCE FROM EXPLOSIVE AGENTS. of applying heat, the circumstances attending such... | |
 | 1870 - 958 pages
...modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost without flame, to inflame with great rapidity,...mode of applying heat, the circumstances attending such application of heat, and the mechanical condition of the explosive agent, are modified.* The character... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1872 - 442 pages
...modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost without flame ; to inflame with great rapidity,...mode of applying heat, the circumstances attending such application of heat, and the mechanical condition of the explosive agent, are modified. ยง 21.... | |
 | 1869 - 602 pages
...be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton, which may be made to burn very slowly, almost Avithout flame, to inflame with great rapidity, but without...mode of applying heat, the circumstances attending such application of heat, and the mechanical condition of the explosive agent are modified.* The character... | |
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... susceptible of several modifications by variation of the circumstances under which the conditions essential to chemical change are fulfilled. Excellent illustrations of the modes by which such modifications may be brought about are furnished by gun-cotton,... 