Kyle Hill

Bullets are fast - even a 9-millimeter handgun launches lead at Mach 1. And the bigger the bullet gets, the more grains of gunpowder it carries, the faster it goes. Modern rifles can fling the small pieces of metal at half the velocity needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Moon.

American Author

John Boyd Orr

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.

Scottish Politician

Cai Guo-Qiang

I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.

Chinese Artist

Kyle Carpenter

All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and stained the skin.

American Soldier

Ana Patricia Botin

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

Spanish Businesswoman

Andre Maurois

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

French Writer

Mark Oliphant

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Australian Scientist

Wendell Phillips

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

American Activist

Philip James Bailey

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

English Poet

Thomas Carlyle

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Scottish Philosopher

Often implies violence or danger when used metaphorically.

Explosive Connotation

Understanding its role in history helps grasp its power and use in literature.

Historical Importance

Appears in idioms or phrases related to excitement or explosive situations.

Cultural References

Knowing it's a Chinese tea can avoid confusion with the explosive material.

Cultural Drink

The tea's name comes from its resemblance to gunpowder grains.

Visual Appearance

The tea is known for its strong flavor, much like the explosive's potency.

Potent Flavor

Refers to a specific anti-monarchial event in UK history; context is critical.

Historical Event

The saying from the plot has become a reminder of the event.

Cultural Idiom

It can symbolize rebellion or a turning point, drawing from historical context.

Symbolic Meaning

 And gunpowder made its way from China to the Middle East forging the futures of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughul Empires. In a way, the Silk Road's success led to its own demise as new maritime technologies, like the magnetic compass, found their way to Europe, making long land routes obsolete.

The Silk Road:...

 He and his buddies, they were older, and they were pretty mean. They said they were going to beat us up if we didn't make some gunpowder for them. We said, well, what are you going to do with it? They said, we're going to melt it down and make rocket fuel. Sure. We'll make you a big batch.

David Holt: The stories...

 From there, engineers and military inventors created all kinds of destructive weapons. From bombs to guns to cannons, gunpowder left its mark on the world in some pretty terrible ways, in contrast to the beautiful marks it can leave in the air. So, how does black powder propel

The deadly irony of...

 Right, so this is the powder house, and first of all, we've got the door, which you wouldn't really know was a door because every time they use this building, they would break it back up again. So this is the main part of the building that contained the gunpowder inside here.

Spotting the World's...

 Chinese had pioneered technologies like steel, printing, gunpowder. But the Chinese never adopted, at least in that period, effective rules for encouraging the spread of those ideas -- a profit motive that could have encouraged the spread. And they soon adopted rules which

Paul Romer: Why the...

 to blow on the parachute we're had if something went wrong you got it my family's a gastronomic got injured because our purse you didn't deploy so believe me I know how important this test is you capturing the Gunpowder where it can compress yes

Big-Ass Rocket PIPE Rocket...

 in the world to document wildlife here flat and baking hot the islands coral rubble supports a unique ecosystem uninhabited for more than 140 years evidence from the days of mining one used to make gunpowder still exists from

Stranded on Starbuck...

 it led to the discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin. The same is true of synthetic dye, plastic, and gunpowder. All were created mistakenly, but went on to address the constraints of other problems.

The power of creative...

 bow, iron, gunpowder, the bomb. War pushes the envelope of technology, granting us God-like powers. Tribal raids have given away to nuclear missiles,

How War Shaped Our...

 fireworks have gunpowder of some kind in them some kind of explosive that