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Unpublished paper, 'Constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite' by Robert Robertson

Reference number: AP/77/4

Date: 21 March 1905

Description

Robertson aims to determine, under the conditions of pressure obtaining in a gun, the constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite, with special reference to the effects produced by the non­explosive ingredients, mineral jelly and acetone.

Includes five diagrams and two photographs of experimental apparatus.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 10 January 1906. Read 8 February 1906. Communicated by [Henry Capel Lofft] Holden.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 79 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A as 'Constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite'.

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AP/77/4
Earliest possible date
21 March 1905
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Ink on paper
Page extent
33 pages
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Photograph

Creator name

Robert Robertson

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Robert Robertson, Unpublished paper, 'Constants of explosion of cordite and of modified cordite' by Robert Robertson, 21 March 1905, AP/77/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_77_4/unpublished-paper-constants-of-explosion-of-cordite-and-of-modified-cordite-by-robert-robertson, accessed on 13 July 2025

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