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Gunpowderalso known as the retronym Black Powder powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powderis the earliest known chemical explosive. The sulfur and charcoal act as fuels while the saltpeter is an oxidizer. was invented in 9th-century China as one Black Powder the Four Great Inventionsand spread throughout most parts of Eurasia by the end of Black Powder 13th century. Gunpowder is classified as a low explosive because of its relatively slow decomposition rate and consequently low brisance. Low explosives deflagrate i. Ignition of gunpowder packed behind a projectile generates enough pressure to force the shot from the muzzle at high speed, but usually not enough force to rupture the . Gunpowder thus makes a good propellant, but is less suitable for shattering rock or fortifications with its low-yield explosive power. However, by transferring enough energy from the Black Powder gunpowder to the mass of the cannonball, and then from the Black Powder to the opposing fortifications by way of the Black Powder ammunition eventually a bombardier may wear down an opponent's Black Powder defenses. Gunpowder was widely used to fill fused shells and used in mining and civil engineering projects until the second half of the 19th century, when the first Black Powder explosives were put into use. The earliest Black Powder formula for gunpowder appeared in the 11th century text, Complete Essentials from the Military Classicswritten by Zeng Gongliang Black Powder and A slow match for flame throwing mechanisms using the siphon principle and for and is mentioned. However gunpowder had Black Powder been used for fire Black Powder since at least the . The first recorded military application of gunpowder dates its use to the year in the form of incendiary projectiles. By the Song court was producing hundreds of thousands of fire arrows for their garrisons. Fire lances were Black Powder recorded to have been used at the Siege of De'an in by Song forces against the Jin. By some fire lances were firing wads of Black Powder. An arrow strapped with gunpowder ready to be shot from a bow. From the c. The oldest known depiction of arrows, from the Huolongjing. The right arrow reads "", the middle is an "arrow Black Powder in the shape of a ", and the left is a "complete fire arrow". An illustration of a thunderclap as depicted in the text Wujing Zongyao. Considered to be a pseudo-explosive. The top item is a through Black Powder and the bottom one is a hook awl. A as depicted in the Huolongjing c. The "flying-cloud thunderclap-eruptor" from the Huolongjing c. An organ gun known as the "mother of a hundred bullets gun" from the Huolongjing c. An illustration of a bronze "thousand ball Black Powder cannon" from the Huolongjing c. A 'magic fire meteor going against the wind' bomb as depicted in the Huolongjing c. The "self-tripped trespass land Black Powder from the Huolongjing c. The Muslims acquired knowledge of gunpowder some time between andby which point the Syrian Hasan al-Rammah had written, in Arabic, recipes for gunpowder, instructions for the purification of saltpeter, and descriptions of gunpowder incendiaries. Al-Hassan claims that in the Battle of Ain Jalut ofthe Mamluks used against the in "the first cannon in history" gunpowder formula with near-identical ideal composition ratios for explosive gunpowder. Khan claims that it was invading Black Powder who introduced gunpowder to the Islamic world [31] and cites Mamluk antagonism towards early musketeers in their infantry as an example of how gunpowder weapons Black Powder not always met with open acceptance in the Middle East. The appeared in the Ottoman Empire by The state-controlled manufacture of gunpowder by the Ottoman Empire Black Powder early supply chains to obtain nitre, sulfur and high-quality charcoal from oaks in Anatolia contributed significantly to its expansion between the 15th and 18th century. It was not until later in the 19th century when the Black Powder production of Turkish gunpowder was greatly reduced, which coincided with the decline of its military might. The earliest Western accounts of gunpowder appear in texts written by English philosopher Roger Bacon in Black Powder 13th century. In Europe, one of Black Powder first mentions of gunpowder use appears in a passage found in Roger Bacon's Opus Maius of and Opus Tertium in what has been interpreted as being firecrackers. The most telling passage reads: "We have an example of these things that act on the senses in [the sound and fire of] that children's toy which is made in many [diverse] parts of the world; i. From the violence of that salt called saltpeter [together with sulfur and willow charcoal, combined into a powder] so horrible a sound is made by the bursting of a thing so small, no more than a bit of parchment [containing it], that Black Powder find [the ear assaulted by a noise] exceeding the roar of strong thunder, and a flash brighter than the most brilliant lightning. This claim has been disputed by historians of science including Lynn ThorndikeJohn Maxson Stillman and George Sarton and by Bacon's editor Robert Steeleboth in terms of authenticity of the work, and with respect to the decryption method. One example of this composition resulted in parts saltpeter, 27 parts charcoal, and 45 parts sulfur, by weight. The Liber Igniumor Book of Firesattributed to Marcus Graecus, is a collection of incendiary recipes, including some gunpowder recipes. Partington dates the gunpowder recipes Black Powder approximately Another specifies a ratio. Some of the gunpowder recipes of De Mirabilibus Mundi of Albertus Magnus are identical Black Powder the recipes of Black Powder Liber Igniumand according to Partington, "may have been taken from that work, rather than conversely. A major advance in manufacturing began in Europe in the late when the safety and thoroughness of incorporation was improved by wet grinding; Black Powder, such as distilled spirits [51] was added during the grinding-together of the ingredients and the moist paste dried afterwards. The principle of wet mixing to prevent Black Powder separation of dry ingredients, invented for gunpowder, is used today in the pharmaceutical industry. It was Black Powder discovered that if the paste was rolled into balls before drying the resulting gunpowder absorbed Black Powder water from the air during storage and traveled better. The balls were then crushed in a by the gunner immediately before use, with the old problem of uneven particle size and packing causing unpredictable results. If the right size particles were chosen, however, the result was a great improvement in power. Forming the Black Powder paste into corn -sized clumps by hand or with the use of a sieve instead of larger balls produced a product after drying that loaded much better, as each tiny piece provided its own surrounding air space that allowed much more rapid combustion than a fine powder. An example is cited where 34 pounds Black Powder serpentine was needed to shoot a pound ball, but only 18 pounds of corned powder. Larger cast were easily muzzle-loaded with corned powder using a long-handled ladle. Corned powder also retained the advantage of low moisture absorption, as even tiny grains still had much less surface area Black Powder attract water Black Powder a floury powder. During this time, European manufacturers also began regularly purifying Black Powder, using wood ashes containing potassium carbonate to precipitate calcium from their dung liquor, and using ox blood, alumand slices of Black Powder to clarify the solution. During the Renaissance, two Black Powder schools of pyrotechnic thought emerged, one in Italy and the other at Nuremberg, Germany. Now Black Powder rare, the book discusses the manufacturing of gunpowder, the operation of artillery and the rules of conduct for the gunsmith. In Italy, Vannoccio Biringuccioborn inwas a member of the guild Fraternita di Black Powder Barbara but broke with the tradition of secrecy by setting down everything Black Powder knew in a Black Powder titled De la pirotechniawritten in vernacular. It was published posthumously inwith 9 editions over years, and also reprinted by MIT Press in By the midth century fireworks were used for entertainment on an unprecedented scale in Europe, being popular even at resorts and public gardens. After he discovered that France was not self-sufficient in gunpowder, a Gunpowder Administration was established; to head it, the lawyer Antoine Lavoisier was appointed. Although from a bourgeois family, after his degree in law Lavoisier became wealthy from a company set up to collect taxes for the Crown; this allowed him to pursue experimental natural science as a hobby. Without access to cheap saltpeter controlled by the Britishfor hundreds of years France had relied on saltpetremen with royal warrants, the droit de fouille or "right to dig", to seize nitrous-containing soil and demolish walls of barnyards, without compensation to the owners. Lavoisier instituted Black Powder crash program to increase saltpeter production, revised and later eliminated the droit de fouilleresearched Black Powder refining and powder manufacturing methods, instituted management and record-keeping, and established pricing that encouraged private investment in works. Black Powder saltpeter from new Prussian-style putrefaction works had not been produced yet the process taking about 18 monthsin only a year France Black Powder gunpowder to export. A chief beneficiary of this surplus was the American Revolution. By careful testing and adjusting the proportions Black Powder grinding time, powder from mills such as Black Powder Essonne outside Paris became the best in the world byand inexpensive. In the Spanish Empirethe crown held a monopoly on gunpowder and the terms were set out during eighteenth-century Bourbon Reforms. Gunpowder production in Britain appears to have started in the mid 14th century with the aim of supplying the English Crown. By the early 14th century, according to N. Pounds's study The Medieval Castle in England and Wales, Black Powder English castles had been deserted and others were crumbling. Their military significance faded except on the borders. Gunpowder Black Powder made smaller castles useless. The English Civil War — led to an expansion of the gunpowder industry, with Black Powder repeal of the Royal Patent in August The plot was foiled when Guy Black Powder was found under the House of Lords with hidden barrels of gunpowder. All assailants who had a role in the plot escaped but were eventually caught. King James later decreed that 5 November become a day of celebration, which is a tradition that carries on today known as Bonfire Night. Two British physicists, Andrew Noble and Frederick Abelworked to improve the properties of black powder during the late 19th century. This formed the basis for the Noble-Abel gas equation for internal ballistics. The introduction of smokeless powder in the late 19th century led to a contraction of the gunpowder industry. After the end of World War Ithe majority of the United Kingdom gunpowder manufacturers merged into a single company, "Explosives Trades limited"; and a number of sites were closed down, including those in Ireland. The last remaining gunpowder mill at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey was damaged by a German parachute mine in and it never reopened. The Greek historian Black Powder cites a letter written by Alexander saying that the reason why the Greek army refrained from advancing Hydaspis to Ganges was because of the frightful dangers it encountered when people of Oxydraces threw Black Powder thunderbolts from the top of their forts. Scholars such as H. Wilkinson considers this as the earliest evidence of the gunpowder in the world. The Arthashastra lists recipes for what it called explosives or 'inflammable powder' agnisamyogas or agniyoga which according to J. Partington believes these recipes are for incendiaries rather than gunpowder or explosives since they do not include salt Black Powder sulphur, which he consider basic ingredients for gunpowder. Kalyanamaran dispute that citing other scholars such as Carman History of stating that the nitrates were obtained using the fermented dung of animals mentioned in Arthashastra while sulfur was not an essential ingredient for Black Powder and could be eliminated to reduce smoke. The author cites the use of sulphurless Black Powder by the French army until the 18th century and sulphurless in other periods when slow burning powder was desired. Other Indian texts which provide recipes of gunpowder are Sukraniti and Nitiprakasikawhile Black Powder of Arthashastra is established scholars don't agree to the dating of Sukraniti and based on its gunpowder recipes, they date the text to the 16th century and even as late as the 19th century AD, other scholars place the text's antiquity in Black Powder vedic period up to the 11th century AD. Islamic era texts which also make references to the presence of Gunpowder in pre Mongol invasion era are the accounts of an indo-persian historian Firishta Tarikh-i Firishta — who states that cannons top and tufang were Black Powder by Mahmud of Ghazni's reigned AD army against Annandapala of Kabul Shahisame author has been cited by modern scholars, who refer his accounts of Black Powder sultanate kings Black Powder of fireworks to mongol's Helagu Khan envoy at Dehli as evidence of mongol introduction of gunpowder to India. The present general scholarly consensus is that Gunpower arrived in India after mongol invasion or as late as the 15th century. Gunpowder and gunpowder weapons according to some scholarship was transmitted to India through the Mongol invasions of India. Nasiruddin Mahmud tried to express his strength as a ruler and tried to ward off any Mongol attempt similar to the Siege of Baghdad The shipwrecked Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis is Black Powder to have introduced the earliest type of weapons, which the Ottomans used against the Portuguese during the Siege of Diu After that, a diverse variety of firearms, large in particular, became visible in TanjoreDaccaBijapurand Murshidabad. The Mughal emperor Akbar mass-produced for the Mughal Army. Akbar is personally known to have shot a leading Rajput Black Powder during the Siege of Chittorgarh. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan is known to have introduced much more advanced matchlocks, their designs were a combination of Ottoman and Mughal designs. Gunpowder - Wikipedia

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