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Tech/Engineering - Military / Defense / guns | | Russian term or phrase: в условия разрыва пушек | My question is whether the guns are (literally) exploding, or just firing (as they are supposed to). This is a letter from D.I. Mendeleyev to Count Witte in 1901, on Arctic exploration, and he's describing some previous work of his that is relevant to the question of getting ships through the polar ice:
В то время (1891-1893), когда я занимался бездымным пироколлодийным порохом и вникал в условия разрыва пушек, у меня составился ряд предположений о приемах, могущих пролагать пути кораблям среди льдов.
My draft:
During the time (1891-1893) that I was working on smokeless pyrocellulose gunpowder and delving into the conditions under which guns exploded [??], I came up with several proposals for techniques that might allow a ship to get through the ice. |
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Michael Korovkin
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9 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 into the conditions of gun (barrels) bursting/rupturing
Explanation:
no, Susan, explode won't do: it sounds almost as a poetic rendering of firing the guns. No, they just simply burst/rupture their barrels due to an excessive charge.
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