Shimose powder

Shimose powder

Shimose powder was a type of gunpowder developed by the Japanese chemist Shimose Masachika (1860-1911). The powder was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1893, and has played an important role in the Japanese victory in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War [cite web | title=Shimose, Masachika | url=http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/109.html?c=9 | publisher=National Diet Library, Japan | accessdate=2008-10-01] . The Shimose powder formulation was derived from that of the smokeless powder developed by the French inventor Paul Vielle in 1884.

The powder brought great precision to Japanese gunnery:

Shimose powder was also used as the explosive in Japanese torpedoes such as the Type 93. [ [http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq30-8.htm Source] ]

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