mineral jelly

noun

, Chemistry.

mineral jelly

First recorded in 1900–05

Noddite: a strip sporting-rifle powder containing nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, mineral jelly.

Ballistite: equal parts of nitroglycerine and soluble nitrocotton with some mineral jelly.

Nobel's invention, "cordite," is composed of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose with a little mineral jelly or vaseline.

Some mineral jelly is added to render the explosive more stable.

It may also contain calcium and magnesium carbonate and mineral jelly.

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