Powder B
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- In explosive: History of black powder
…be known as A and B blasting powder respectively. The A powder continued in use for special purposes that required its higher quality, principally for firearms, military devices, and safety fuses.
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- In Paul Vieille
…came to be known as Powder B, its French army designation (c. 1885); this was the first of the series of modern smokeless high explosives. Vieille made further contributions in the study of shock waves and pressures and on the stability of nitrocellulose.
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