Picric acid, artillery shells

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Note The compressed Guncotton contg about 18% moisture proved to be so successful that it was adopted by several countries (especially by Russia) for loading not only of sea mines but also of Whitehead torpedoes and cannon shells. Russian Artillery used it during the Russo-Japanese War (1904—1905), but it proved to be inferior to Japanese shells loaded with Shimose (cast Picric Acid). Senior author of this Encycl, who served in 1917 in the Russian Navy, remembers that torpedoes on his destroyer of 1905 vintage were loaded with compressed, moist Guncotton... 

For a time compressed guncotton was used in Russia by the artillery (1876) [12] as a shell filling. From 1890 moist guncotton was adopted for this, purpose [12]. Guncotton continued to be used for a shell filling in some countries until it was replaced by the introduction of picric acid. 

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