However, it is also very dirty. Modern ammunition is fueled by smokeless gunpowder, which burns much cleaner. It varies in granule shape and size too, but it’s made from nitrocellulose and ...

Owing to its purpose, the Ordinance Department named the burgeoning city Nitro after the chemical Nitro-Cellulose, a component in the smokeless gunpowder it produced. Redwop, a reverse spelling of ...