cordite

family of smokeless propellants
Product explosive_chemicals Q905964
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cordite

Summary

cordite is an explosive chemicals[1]. cordite draws 701 Wikipedia views per month (explosive_chemicals category, ranking #4 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • cordite is credited with the discovery of Frederick Abel[3].
  • cordite is credited with the discovery of James Dewar[4].
  • cordite's video is recorded as Burning Cordite.webm[5].
  • cordite's image is recorded as Cordite.jpg[6].
  • cordite's image is recorded as Cordite Filled Cartridge.JPG[7].
  • cordite's instance of is recorded as explosive chemicals[8].
  • cordite's made from material is recorded as nitrocellulose[9].
  • cordite's made from material is recorded as nitroglycerin[10].
  • cordite's subclass of is recorded as smokeless powder[11].
  • cordite's Commons category is recorded as Cordite[12].
  • cordite's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1889-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • cordite's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fyw_[14].
  • cordite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cordite[15].
  • cordite's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1010861[16].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[19].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[21].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • cordite's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23].
  • cordite's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/cordite[24].
  • cordite's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00022608n[25].
  • cordite's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as korditt[26].
  • cordite's Dreadnought Project page is recorded as Cordite[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Frederick Abel[3], a chemist[28], 1827–1902[29], of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[30], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[31], specialised in chemistry[32] and James Dewar[4], a physicist[33], 1842–1923[34], of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[35], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society[36], specialised in physics[37].

Why It Matters

cordite draws 701 Wikipedia views per month (explosive_chemicals category, ranking #4 of 18).[2] cordite has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] cordite is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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