gunpowder

Noun

Meaning

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

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war. Carl von Clausewitz

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

You cannot wage war without the sound of gunpowder. Malian Proverb

He did not invent gunpowder. Spanish Proverb

Fire and gunpowder are not bedfellows. Ghana Proverb

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