Noun
A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe 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