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Sentence Examples If you are interested in purchasing a balance, I can recommend one made by Lyman for weighing gunpowder and bullets. The group said it will begin tests in May using land mines without gunpowder. But the mere possession of a lot of cannon and gunpowder, or air-to-surface missiles, is not enough. Just as castle walls gave way to gunpowder and the cannon, so too will present technology give way to new ideas and new tools of war. Undercover officers rushed in only to find talcum powder and not gunpowder on the agenda. Cannons, guns, gunpowder, swords and many other weapons of war were needed and Spain bought them from whoever would sell to them. As her daughter tripped on a mop and dropped a box of glass dishes, the burnt end of that fuse collided with the gunpowder. There was wax, matches, a long fuse, gunpowder and 20 bullets packed around a quarter stick of dynamite. Propellants such as gunpowder are so-called low explosives that burn but do not normally detonate. The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder. The process of pyroxylin gunpowder production is a complex multiphase chemical engineering process. Liquid propellants clearly have the edge over gunpowder for military applications such as this. The cellar was searched and, hidden amid the large quantity of firewood stored there, 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, along with fuses. Fawkes's task was to light the slow fuse to ignite the barrels of gunpowder. Lit at one end, the small amount of gunpowder in the core of the fuse burned slowly along the length of the cord that surrounded it. In addition to coconut shells, one can use cowries or other ocean shells, and even gunpowder. The first chemical explosive was gunpowder, or black powder, a mixture of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate. I was informed recently that it was a Johnson who foiled the gunpowder plot. Sitting on top of shellfish remains were 20 empty gunpowder flasks and loose flask caps. This incident was particularly severe because of the huge amount of gunpowder in the firework. Show More Sentences A cloud of smoke billowed up from the barrel of the pistol and the odor of gunpowder filled her nostrils. In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise. It would be oversimplistic to ascribe the decline of armour solely to the invention of gunpowder and the portable personal weapon. Each ship was carrying gunpowder and the ships were made of wood with canvas sails. Vast quantities of clothing, gunpowder, pikes, halberds, swords, and muskets poured out of the workshops of the metropolis. His instincts implored him to edge forward, but the gunpowder barrels, whether full or not, kept him in his place. That way the hard barrel compresses the relatively soft metal of the bullet as the exploding gunpowder hurls the projectile down the barrel. The six men in the black van were now spilling out, all with guns in their hands, one just fired and still smoking with gunpowder. Maybe Boone noticed crystals of potassium nitrate there, because the deep, loose floor was soon being mined for niter to make gunpowder. The subterranean mines excavated beneath a fortress often had several galleries each with a terminal chamber holding large amounts of gunpowder. He enclosed gunpowder in a tight fabric wrapping to create the first safety fuse. The finished design marks the 400th anniversary of the 1605 gunpowder plot, led by infamous York son Guy Fawkes. Here is a fantasy of necromancy and astromancy, gunpowder and swordplay, politics and crime. Although the government built armories, nevertheless, about 60 percent of U.S. gunpowder was imported. Recipes for gunpowder, relative to the proportions in the mixture of its three components, varied over the centuries of its use. I bought diesel, petrol, meths, engine oil, kindling and even a light sprinkling of gunpowder. In the early days of quarrying, one-foot holes were made and whole kegs of gunpowder used in blasting. With a barrel of gunpowder between your legs its difficult to recall the details of your past. A lack of bullets initially put investigators off the scent of gunpowder. He was filmed leaving the apartment with a heavy bag, which later showed traces of gunpowder. Show More Sentences Also in the apartment were glass jars containing what is believed to be accelerant, black gunpowder, and bullets. Then he grabbed his ration pack, gunpowder horn, and bullet bag. The exploding bombs and gunpowder leveled every structure for hundreds of yards in all directions. The thrown spear did not survive competition with the longbow, crossbow, and firearm in the West but it continued in cultures innocent of gunpowder. Ships carried weapons and gunpowder to Africa, then loaded on human beings. There was no gunpowder found on her skin, supporting the notion of a shot not fired at extreme close range. Williams agreed to submit to a gunpowder residue test, which reportedly was negative. Advances such as papermaking, printing technology, the magnetic compass for navigation and gunpowder propelled human civilization to greater heights many generations later. The Medieval walls without flanks and terreplein to resist gunpowder bombardment were easy prey to the besiegers and the fortifications soon succumbed. Steel pots and knives, tomahawks, glass beads, manufactured cloth, guns, and gunpowder gradually replaced traditional products of native manufacture. Government officials had the power to scrape up dried urine from beneath the boarded floors of the stables because it contained saltpetre, a vital ingredient of gunpowder. Yet for all the muskets, bombards, and cannon, Kelly appears more interested in the impact of gunpowder as a technological force driving deeper societal changes. Nitrogen is an important component of common chemical explosives like TNT, nitroglycerin, gunpowder, guncotton, nitrocellulose, picric acid, and ammonium nitrate. They were destroyed with the help of gunpowder, canons, and fireballs. I love the smell of burnt feathers and gunpowder and cordite! The explosion was triggered in a classroom where students, aged 9-11, were inserting fuses into fireworks that had been filled with gunpowder by older students. Shells, hollow ammunition filled with gunpowder and equipped with a fuse, were the most common type of explosive artillery round used during the Civil War. Regiments of fusiliers were assigned to guard the artillery trains, in which large quantities of gunpowder were stored and transported for the army's ordnance. And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over. Many of the wars in this century were fought with TNT as the main explosive and with gunpowder as the main propellant of bullets and artillery shells. Show More Sentences It was also used in the past to produce charcoal for gunpowder. Prior to its first military uses, gunpowder was termed black powder. However, gunpowder smoke and the solid residues are basic, and as such the net effect of fireworks on acid rain is debatable. Other heavy infantry would probably be armed with little armour and maybe a gunpowder weapon that was capable of penetrating armour. Aragon's Crown and Portugal constructed warships equipped with firearms and advanced gunpowder cannons. His torpedo ran on water with a rocket system filled with explosive gunpowder materials and had three firing points. In the rear, two smaller carracks got separated, and on Diogo de Mello's carrack a gunpowder barrel accidentally exploded, and the ship sank. Martinez had allowed a store of gunpowder to catch fire and was condemned to death, however his friends let him escape downriver in a canoe. Due to its proximity with China, Japan had long been familiar with gunpowder weaponry. Also, while Yermak had succeeded in regaining the loyalty of the tribes, his men were now almost completely out of gunpowder. Here he decided to return to Anadyrsk, either under pressure of his men or because he was running short of gunpowder and lead. At the peak of the slave trade hundreds of thousands of muskets, vast quantities of cloth, gunpowder, and metals were being shipped to Guinea. To avoid accidentally igniting the gunpowder the match had to be detached while loading the gun. The Mamluks in particular were conservatively against the incorporation of gunpowder weapons. Special wagons were produced for many other different commodities such as gunpowder, aeroplanes, milk, fruit and fish. Also, the resources needed to make gunpowder were less universally available than the resources needed to make bolts and arrows. The arquebusier carries a lot of gunpowder on his person and has a lit match in one hand. The introduction of gunpowder to the field of battle affected not only military organisation, but helped advance the nation state. When the English retreated, De Ruyter was reluctant to follow, perhaps because of lack of gunpowder. Along with the mastery of gunpowder, waterpower provided European countries worldwide military leadership from the 15th century. Show More Sentences Some 157 tons of gunpowder were used and over 8 million tons of water were pumped out. Unzaga authorized the shipment of desperately needed gunpowder in a transaction brokered by Oliver Pollock. Sometimes taller buildings were levelled to the ground quickly and effectively by means of controlled gunpowder explosions. In 1844 a factory for making gunpowder was built on the open moor, not far from Postbridge. The pike began to replace the spear and the Scots began to convert from the bow to gunpowder firearms. On the evening of the 28th, Tromp and De With withdrew to resupply, as they were short on gunpowder. A cardboard cylinder, containing a small amount of gunpowder was known as a Thunderflash and used to simulate grenades. Wooden sticks were strapped to iron pipes with one end blocked and a touch hole bored so as to ignite the crude gunpowder mixture. The gun crews were removing the charges from their containers and removing the paper covering over the gunpowder igniter charges. In 2004, Disneyland in Anaheim, California, pioneered the commercial use of aerial fireworks launched with compressed air rather than gunpowder. More gunpowder was brought into the room, along with firewood to conceal it. The argute Poirot figures out that Simon and Jacqueline were the killers, tricking them into believing he possessed conclusive gunpowder tests. The pakeha boy Andy speaks of Guy Fawkes and tells of the protest that sat behind the gunpowder plot to much class applause. A charge of 200 pounds of gunpowder, in bags merely laid at the foot of the stockade, untamped, was first exploded. The supply of gunpowder was theoretically controlled by the government, but it was easily obtained from illicit sources. Mauskopf's excellent article about 18th-century English and French gunpowder production, we get direct coupling of science and the military. He ought to have purchased gunpowder, I know, but instead Galton bought three pounds of Lapsang Souchong and six pounds of fine coffee. However, with the arrival of gunpowder and cannons by the time of Henry VI, fortifications like castles became increasingly obsolete. Realizing his army's desperate shortage of gunpowder, Washington asked for new sources. Even when, on the invention of gunpowder and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the prohibition was continued. Show More Sentences Although gunpowder was first invented and described in China, Bacon was the first in Europe to record its formula. His responsibility was to take charge of Catesby's house in Lambeth, where the gunpowder and other supplies were to be stored. Inside, the barrels of gunpowder were discovered hidden under piles of firewood and coal. What is the common name for potassium nitrate, used as a food preservative and an ingredient of gunpowder? Unused and filthy, it was considered an ideal hiding place for the gunpowder the plotters planned to store. The plotters leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Calculations showed that Fawkes, who was skilled in the use of gunpowder, had deployed double the amount needed. Artillery powered by gunpowder was introduced to Europe in the 1320s and spread quickly. It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder that was floated toward the enemy, detonated by a sparking mechanism if it struck a ship. The programme also disproved claims that some deterioration in the quality of the gunpowder would have prevented the explosion. The Chinese destroyed one vessel by targeting its gunpowder magazine, and captured another Portuguese ship. Even if only half of the gunpowder had gone off, everyone in the House of Lords and its environs would have been killed instantly. His plan was to break up the wreck of Royal George with gunpowder charges and then salvage as much as possible using divers. As guns became heavier and able to take more powerful gunpowder charges, they needed to be placed lower in the ship, closer to the water line. With the help of condemned bomb shells filled with gunpowder acquired from the Ordnance Board he blasted his way into parts of the wreck. Somewhat earlier, in medieval China, gunpowder had been invented, and was increasingly used by the military in combat. Also, four gunpowder facilities also were opened at this site. The raiding party also recovered arms and ammunition, including two Kalashnikovs, a rocket launcher, eight hand grenades, six detonators and gunpowder. The introduction of gunpowder affected the conduct of war significantly. When Roberts and his men were finally found an attempt was made to blow the ship up rather than face capture, however it proved in vain due to an insufficient gunpowder. Show More Sentences Europeans traded for slaves with the slave capturers of the local native African tribes in exchange for rum, guns, gunpowder, and other manufactures. Fees for citizenship ranged from 12 Polish florins to a musket and gunpowder, or an undertaking to marry within a year and a day of acquiring a holding. Though the English won numerous victories, they were unable to overcome the numerical superiority of the French and their strategic use of gunpowder weapons. The shortage of gunpowder had led Congress to authorize an expedition against the Bahamas Colony in the West Indies, in order to secure ordnance there. They supplied the rebels illegally with ships, salt and gunpowder. In 1240 the Arabs acquired knowledge of gunpowder and its uses from China. Fireworks were invented in ancient China in the 7th century to scare away evil spirits, as a natural extension of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China of gunpowder. The Germans employed the Haber process of nitrogen fixation to provide their forces with a constant supply of gunpowder despite the British naval blockade. European alder is a source of charcoal for making gunpowder. The impact of even deteriorated gunpowder would have been magnified by its containment in wooden barrels, compensating for the quality of the contents. The gunpowder was stamped into the tube, then a lead ball was put into the muzzle, a wad was stamped over it, and the charge was set fire to by a lunt through the lower hole. The European development of firearms using gunpowder cemented their military advantage over the peoples they sought to subjugate in the Americas and elsewhere. The bow and the crossbow was used by the conquistadors for hunting and warfare when firearms or gunpowder were unavailable because of economic hardships or isolation. In the Revolutionary War, Bermudans provided gunpowder to the Americans. Starting in 1776, the French secretly supplied the Americans with money, gunpowder, and munitions in order to weaken its arch enemy Great Britain. Examples from Classical Literature Excess of moisture in gunpowder has a marked effect in reducing the explosiveness. Then a slow match was made by rubbing gunpowder on some long strips of calico. Let us now fix our attention for a moment on the gunpowder which urges the cannon-ball. When we Germans say of a man that he was not the inventor of gunpowder, we impliedly cast a grave suspicion on his abilities. While spending a holiday at home in lisburn he was playing with gunpowder, when some of it unexpectedly exploded in his face. They say a lot of gunpowder had been stowed in the lumber room just under the door. He had established a manufactory for gunpowder, on a plan devised by himself. Minor uses were in agriculture as a fungicide and insecticide, in vulcanizing rubber, and in the manufacture of gunpowder. This kind may also be noted in the voltaic cell and the charged condenser, and in a chemical form in coal and gunpowder. The latter method is only practised by the manufacturers of pyroligneous acid and gunpowder. At our first hiding-place we left a bag of pemmican, weighing ninety pounds, two bags of wild rice, and a gallon keg of gunpowder. There was also a large supply of gunpowder, ball, and shot, and coal and wood in abundance. Well, well, gunpowder or pimento, I'll set fire to it if you don't be civil. A bombshell filled with gunpowder, a gunlock, and a small clock, have been suggested as forming the components of this invention. Don't touch the gunpowder till you're told, or you'll get your head smacked. Steam and gunpowder and electricity, what wonderful ideas were connoted in the words! He lay and smelled gunpowder mingling with the saltiness of the bay and the evening incense of the earth. He'd quench his thirst before an engagement with gunpowder mixed in brandy. W'y, bushie, if Betsy is always belchin' gunpowder, don't you know her breaf mus' smell uf gunpowder? Wheal Leisure mine opens and the workers immediately hit ironstone, requiring additional funds for gunpowder. Show More Sentences Dear heart, sir, was it really you as was blowed up with gunpowder? The constitution of gunpowder is the cause of its explosiveness. I should bombard the troops till not one grain of gunpowder was unexploded. So Imam Din and I emptied out the corpse one time, with my shaving soap and trade gunpowder, and hot water. There you see a heap of gunpowder in the centre of our large flame. As well put a match to a gunpowder barrel to warm your fingers. The flash of a pinch of gunpowder in your face may be a bigger matter. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. Smokeless gunpowder is actually but a modified form of high explosive. Some familiar kinds of green tea are hyson, Japan, and gunpowder. D'ye figger the parson's goin' to preach on swearin' Ur gunpowder? They are made pleasant to some, but I would more rather give my boys gunpowder to play with than this bad trash. Its final fall was due to the introduction of gunpowder as a propellant. As though a red-hot poker should have kissed a barrel of gunpowder. School is about learning what you need in the outside world and ignoring the rest, like log tables, long division, Chaucer and the gunpowder plot. He then gave her a dose of gunpowder dissolved in cold water, and ordered her to be wrapped in buffalo robes and put to sleep under a load of furs and blankets. It was an empty house which had been torn down by the gunpowder, and the grim old colour sergeant of the war was still teaching discipline to the miners of Iron Dike. Find more words! 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