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Definition of Gunpowder

Gunpowder

  1. A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.

Gunpowder Quotations

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
Gary Locke
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Gunpowder Translations

gunpowder in Dutch is buskruit, kruit
gunpowder in Italian is polvere da sparo
gunpowder in Norwegian is krutt
gunpowder in Swedish is krut

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