Synonym: powder. Similar words: powder, powder room, face powder, chowder, crowded, overcrowded, unpopular, manpower. Meaning: n. a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks.
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61 The birthplace of paper, printing, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass turned inward, uncreative, and xenophobic.
62 With electric energy as the energy source, electromagnetic launcher is much cheaper to use than rocket propellant using gunpowder.
63 Historians puzzle over why, for 500 years after inventing gunpowder, China invented so little else.
64 The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was the most famous of the Catholic conspiracies.
65 He used gunpowder to seize both on the underdeveloped continents of Asia and Africa.
66 Since the major raw material of gunpowder niter is as white as snow,[www.Sentencedict.com] Arabians called gunpowder "Chinese Snow"and "Chinese Salt".
67 Fawkes:English conspirator executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to kill James I and blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, to avenge the persecution of Roman Catholics in England.
68 It was ordinary Catholics, however, who suffered the longest as a result of the Gunpowder Plot.
69 The origins of gunpowder in China also date from the 9 th century AD.
70 The dog handlers were told they might encounter the scent of pot or gunpowder up to three times per room, sometimes marked with red paper. It was a flat-out lie—there were no target scents.
71 A bit of gunpowder, sulphur, and potassium chlorate in a tin.
72 During these battles the Song navy employed swift paddle wheel driven naval crafts armed with trebuchet catapults aboard the decks that launched gunpowder bombs.
73 Urine was used for tanning leather and in the making of saltpetre, an important component of gunpowder.
74 But after gunpowder was introduced into Europe, the English scientist Roger Bacon said he still thought bells were much better demon-chasers.
75 Roger Bacon discovered the composition of gunpowder, while searching for the philosopher's stone.
76 Alexandre Manette, ' said Defarge in his ear, following the letters with his swart forefinger, deeply engrained with gunpowder.
77 Later, people made up black gunpowder with niter, sulfur and charcoal of certain proportions on the basis of the formula.
78 MiniSeries depicting the turbulent and bloody reign of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
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