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• Gunpowder
  ...rm]]s and [[firework]]s. The [[gas]]es generated by [[Conbustion|burning]] gunpowder create enough [[pressure]] to propel a bullet, but not enough to destroy th Gunpowder is a [[explosives#low explosive|low explosive]] – which means that it has
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• Gunpowder/Definition
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• Gunpowder/Approval
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• Gunpowder/Bibliography
  ...tp://books.google.com/books?id=7n6Cg9znFrUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:gunpowder&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&ei=CCS1R96qCJb4tgOG39yXBQ&sig=2n5yoCm5T4NxzhoUBnVPbf2v1 * Cocroft, Wayne. ''Dangerous Energy: The Archaeology of Gunpowder and Military Explosives'' (2000) 222 pages
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• Gunpowder/Related Articles
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• Gunpowder/External Links
  ...tp://books.google.com/books?id=-lEBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:gunpowder&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1&ei=rSS1R9TVAoKAsgOJpsyGBQ full text online]
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• Potassium nitrate/Definition
  ...</sub>, an [[oxidizing agent]], the major constituent of [[gunpowder|black gunpowder]] and a food preservative known as saltpeter
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• Musket/Definition
  ...]] fired from the shoulder; it is muzzle-loaded and uses [[gunpowder|black gunpowder]]
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• Charcoal (material)
  ==Gunpowder use== When prepared for black [[gunpowder]], the charcoal must be finely divided. Softwood from pines works best for
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• Gunpowder/Bibliography
  ...tp://books.google.com/books?id=7n6Cg9znFrUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:gunpowder&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0&ei=CCS1R96qCJb4tgOG39yXBQ&sig=2n5yoCm5T4NxzhoUBnVPbf2v1 * Cocroft, Wayne. ''Dangerous Energy: The Archaeology of Gunpowder and Military Explosives'' (2000) 222 pages
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• Musket
  Muskets use [[gunpowder|black gunpowder]] and are [[muzzle-loaded]]. The actual firing mechanism can be [[matchlock
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• Double-base propellant/Definition
  A form of smokeless gunpowder with the primary constituents being nitrocellulose and a plasticizer, such
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• Sword/Definition
  A long-bladed edged weapon, one of the basic means of pre-gunpowder warfare, and still in use for the sport of [[fencing]] and for ceremonial p
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• Gunpowder/External Links
  ...tp://books.google.com/books?id=-lEBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:gunpowder&lr=&num=30&as_brr=1&ei=rSS1R9TVAoKAsgOJpsyGBQ full text online]
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• Potassium nitrate
  ...under manure, and as one of the principal ingredients in [[gunpowder|black gunpowder]]. It is used as a preservative for [[sausage]] and other cured meats.
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• Deflagration/Definition
  ...combustion in explosive materials, especially low explosives such as black gunpowder and desensitized smokeless powder; the combustion wave propagates by therma
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• Song Dynasty/Bibliography
  *Kelly, Jack (2004). ''Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Cha *Partington, James Riddick (1960). ''A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder''. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.
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• Science fiction and religion/Bibliography
  *H. Beam Piper, "Gunpowder God"
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• Firearm/Related Articles
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• Rocket fuel
  [[Gunpowder]] was the first rocket fuel, first used in ancient China.<ref name=theatlan ...and how, we have to travel back to the invention of the first rocket fuel: gunpowder, or "the fire chemical," as it was called in ancient China.
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