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Be gunpowder
noun
An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.
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Fassel demanded the team be "gunpowder ready" for its next game, Sunday against the Falcons in Atlanta.
One policeman, searching the apartment, discovers a dish of bulgur wheat and proclaims it to be gunpowder — a ridiculous detail, which we are at liberty to find amusing, but which for Fuad spells arrest, and which for the young Elia means looking at his vanishing father, and then at his father's shadow.
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This is gunpowder".
As the series' title denotes, the medium is gunpowder: charcoal mixed with saltpeter and sulfur.
Federal prosecutor, Enrique Fedegrino, said yesterday that tests indicate there was gunpowder residue on her hands.
Michael Leetham, a forensic scientist, said he believed that a substance found in Mr Watt's home in Cumbernauld was gunpowder.
One participant in Portland Opera's staging of the same production recalls: "The odours, if I remember right, were gunpowder, cleaning solution, fart, meat and citrus".
The assistant superintendent's nickname is Gunpowder, a detail that evokes the boom of thunder as well as the Petersburg Church of Elijah, which stood at the gunpowder factory.
Continue reading "Du blows it - but gold for shooter who married the man who missed it" One of the great inventions of the ancient Chinese world was gunpowder.
Well, yeah, I think we've found something cooler: Cai Guo-Qiang, whose chosen medium is gunpowder.
I would like to see the brain, because if there was gunpowder under the skin, there should be traces of gunpowder in the brain.
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