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PROPELLANTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 439 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PROPELLANTS , a generic name for See also:

EXPLOSIVES

explosives used for propelling projectiles from guns and other firearms, in See also:

order to distinguish them from the more violent explosives used in shells, mines, &c., to produce a See also:

BLASTING

blasting effect .

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