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History Of Gunpowder
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Gunpowder is the oldest of all explosives. It was used by the ancient
Chinese, Arabs, and people of India first. But exact directions on how to make
it were not known to the western World until 1242, when Roger Bacon of Oxford
University, in England published a book in which he told the ways to make
gunpowder. Today gunpowder i .... Middle of paper
.... you would moisten it and
pound it into a cake. Then it was broken into small bits and put into a sieve to be
sifted. The pieces that came through the sieve were different shapes and would
not fit together well enough to pack tightly, so that careful packing of a cannon
was not necessary.
When a long-barreled, rifled cannon came into use, it became necessary
to slow down the burning rate of the gunpowder. Its swift explosive forc ....
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Number of words: 1710
Number of pages: 7 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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