schnebelite

[After M. l'Abbé Schnebelin, the inventor.] Mil .: A new and powerful "smokele " explosive to be used in firearms. The composition is unknown. It is, however, very simple, and may be manufactured with great rapidity. Neither friction nor concu ion will explode it. When free it may be ignited, and will burn with a bright light, but without the least deflagration. When hermetically sealed in a cartridge and discharged in the usual way it explodes with almost inconceivable force. At a range of 100 yards a rifle-bullet was driven through an eighth-inch plate of Be emer steel, and four inches of the wood against which the plate rested.