black powder in English

noun
1
the original gunpowder, composed of charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur, now used chiefly in antique firearms and in fireworks.
The news is now reporting the explosive was a toy grenade filled with black powder and a fuse.

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1. For blasting, they used black powder.

2. [XB1] W: Bayonetted black powder rifles for scrapping H: Caps

3. Mixture of black powder and magnesium have a tendency to segregate.

4. Black powder provided the destructive force for Cannonballs and artillery shells

5. This iron oxide is encountered in the laboratory as a black powder.

6. It is a black powder that crystallises in the rock salt structure.

7. These are of the black powder type, e.g., Bobbinite, a typical black powder explosive con sisting of potassium nitrate 63.5%, charcoal 19.5%, starch 3%, sulphur 2%, paraffin wax 8% and moisture 3%

8. Darken the eyebrows with dark brown or black powder - pencil gives a very harsh look.

9. We continued our work until the fingerprint man arrived to dust that dreadful black powder everywhere.

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11. The Naval History and Heritage Command explained that black powder might have been stockpiled outside the armored magazine.

12. Amigo, after all the blood, the cold, and pain, with this black powder in our saddle bags, we win.

13. Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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15. Activated Charcoal is a fine black powder made from bone char, coconut shells, peat, petroleum coke, coal, olive pits or sawdust

16. Semi-smokeless powders featured bulk volume properties that approximated black powder, but had significantly reduced amounts of smoke and combustion products.

17. You gentlemen will be combining sulphur rock, nitrate of pot ash... and charcoal to create what is commonly known... as black powder.

18. That, and the fact that I am like an old maid when it comes to black powder mak'in, reload'in, and all things Boomable

19. Typically, this material is used for all types of Buckskins including native dress, black powder, pants, shirts, hunting gear, taxidermy mounts, beading and crafts

20. The Cannonballs and other artillery shells of this period were filled with a mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, commonly known as black powder

21. Charcoal is an odorless, tasteless, fine black powder, or black porous solid consisting of carbon, and any remaining ash, obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances

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25. Ashy adjective (BURNED) consisting of or like ash (= the soft grey or black powder that is left after a substance has burned): They found fruit thrived in the Ashy soil at the feet of volcanoes.

26. Participants for years remembered pandemonium: the shrill blasts of Ferguson’s whistle mingled with Backwoodsmen’s loud yells, the roar of hundreds of blazing guns, shouts of command, pain and fear, and a thick sulfuric fog from black powder that hung over the …

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28. Artillery has played a critical role in providing close support to the infantry, bombarding fortifications, defending coasts, and, in the twentieth century, attacking tanks and aircraft.Beginning with the initial settlements, English colonists in North America, like Europeans, employed smoothbore, muzzle‐loading, black powder, cast‐bronze cannons and howitzers.