Editing Wadding (section)

{{Short description|Material used in guns to seal gas behind a projectile}}
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[[Image:Flejtuch czproch.JPG|thumb|Modern made waddings out of leather and jute]]

'''Wadding''' is a disc of material used in [[gun]]s to [[mechanical seal|seal]] gas behind a [[projectile]] (a [[bullet]] or [[round shot|ball]]), or to separate the [[propellant]] from loosely packed [[shot (pellet)|shot]]s.<ref>[http://homestudy.ihea.com/glossary_fa.htm#w "Glossary of Firearms Terms".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231730/http://homestudy.ihea.com/glossary_fa.htm#w |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
Wadding can be crucial to a gun's efficiency, since any gas that leaks past a projectile as it is being fired is wasted. A harder or more carefully designed item which serves this purpose is often called a [[Sabot (firearms)|sabot]]. Wadding for [[muzzleloader]]s is typically a small piece of cloth, or [[cartridge paper|paper]] wrapping from the [[cartridge (weaponry)|cartridge]].{{citation needed|date = March 2015}}