corned gunpowder

French translation: poudre en grains

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English term or phrase:	corned gunpowder
French translation:	poudre en grains
Entered by:	Stéphanie Soudais

08:29 Apr 30, 2008

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Tech/Engineering - Military / Defense / Firearms

English term or phrase: corned gunpowder

J'ai trouvé la définition mais pas d'équivalent en français. Poudre pillée, granulée?

The corning (graining) process is developed for making different granulations of black powder, whereby the ingredients are wetted, dried into cakes, and the cakes broken and sieved. Previous, black powder was a fine powder, called serpentine powder, that was risky to use. Corned powder makes guns safer and hastens their development.

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poudre en grains

Explanation:
"A noter qu'au cours du XIXe siècle, les chimistes de l'époque mirent au point un procédé permettant d'obtenir de la poudre noire en grains, dont la taille peut être modulée selon l'usage prévu : plus les grains sont petits, plus la poudre obtenue est dite « vive », c'est-à-dire qu'elle présente une vitesse de combustion élevée. Ce conditionnement permet également de mieux conserver et de mieux doser la poudre noire."
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poudre_à_canon

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Belgium
Local time: 02:58

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poudre en grains

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poudre à canon durable

Cecile Frenette

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poudre en grains

FX Fraipont (X)
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Local time: 02:58
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poudre à canon durable

Explanation:
Voir la description de "corned gunpoweder" :
Corned gunpowder contained the same chemicals as normal gunpowder but the refining process involved mixing the gunpowder into a wet substance and then drying the mixture.sur le site http://monkeytree.org/silkroad/gunpowder/europe.html

Reference: http://monkeytree.org/silkroad/gunpowder/europe.html

Cecile Frenette
Canada
Local time: 20:58
Works in field
Native speaker of: French

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