Uses in Popular Culture
In honour of the military uses of cordite, the Royal Military College of Canada's mechanical engineering department built a ship and named it cordite for use in thermodynamic research.
In both the book and film of Frederick Forsyth's The Day Of The Jackal the assassin chews cordite to give his complexion a grey pallor so that he might impersonate an aged veteran.
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