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smokeless powders

smokeless powders is the plural of smokeless powder.

Meaning of smokeless powder

Noun

smokeless powder (countable and uncountable, plural smokeless powders)

  1. An explosive, similar to gunpowder, consisting of nitrocellulose mixed with nitroglycerine or nitroguanidine, which burns with very little smoke.

Questions about smokeless powders

What is smokeless powders the plural of?
Smokeless powders is the plural of smokeless powder.

Words near smokeless powders in the dictionary

  1. smokejumper
  2. smokejumpers
  3. smokejumping
  4. smokeless
  5. smokeless powder
  6. smokeless powders
  7. smokeless zone
  8. smokeless zones
  9. smokelessly
  10. smokelessness
  11. smokelike

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