Gunpowder
A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
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Gunpowder Quotations
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete du Pont
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
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant
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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