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Career Guidance Knowledge engineering, manufacturing and construction K071 - engineering and engineering trades K0716 - motor vehicles, ships and aircraft Types of propellants
Description
Field of information which distinguishes different types of propellants such as black gunpowder to forms of smokeless powder derived from nitrocellulose. These create an expanding gas which makes the bullet accelerate from the barrel. Other differences emerge from the expansion rate, size and shape of the powder.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Ammunition assemblerAmmunition assemblers put together explosives and other ammunition components. They perform this work in mass production in ammunition factories. The production itself focuses on t…
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- Materials of die
- Maintenance of ammunition
- Check quality of raw materials
- Tend punch press
- Finish shells
- Cold forging
Last updated on February 18, 2026
