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Gunpowder
Explosive most commonly used as propellant in firearms
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Lavoisier et L'encyclopédie méthodique : le manuscrit des régisseurs des poudres et salpêtres pour le Dictionnaire de l'artillerie (1787) / Patrice Bret.
Bret, Patrice.
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Date: 1997
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Apparatus used in the making of gunpowder. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.
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Date: [between 1700 and 1799]
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Reference: 31196i
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Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.
Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
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Date: 1670
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On rendering gunpowder non-explosive / by J.S.G. Ryley.
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Date: [1865?]
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A chemist creates a new form of gunpowder - incombustible; representing a futile new invention. Coloure lithograph by J.-B.-D. Bourdel, 1835.
Bourdel, Jean-Baptiste-Désiré, 1826-1859.
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Date: [1835]
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Reference: 16608i
Part of: Les bigarrures de l'esprit humain
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