The phrase "amount of gunpowder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or measurements of gunpowder in various contexts, such as chemistry, history, or military applications.
Example: "The recipe for the explosive required a precise amount of gunpowder to ensure its effectiveness."
Alternatives: "quantity of gunpowder" or "volume of gunpowder."
In 1605, he was found with a large amount of gunpowder, after hatching a detailed plot to kill the monarch.
The researchers found the explosions were very fast and very hot and had about the same force as an equal amount of gunpowder.
In July, Union troops dug a mine beneath the Confederate position and, on July 30 , 1864 a massive amount of gunpowder was detonated in the mine, blasting a hole in the Confederate position.
After hatching their Nobel Prize-worthy plot, the pair built a few incendiary devices using a kitchen clock, a nine-volt battery, and a sandwich baggie containing a small amount of gunpowder.
Consequently, large amounts of gunpowder were needed, to allow them to fire stone balls several hundred yards.
Users must precisely calculate the amount of black gunpowder to be used based upon altitude and rocket geometry.
Casey Ruble offers dynamite sticks (made of cardboard gouache, fuse wire and, in one of them, a small amount of real gunpowder) in snazzy designer patterns; Sylvie Réno, a set of box cutters (made of folded cardboard); and Jacques Flèchemuller, meticulously assembled suitcase bombs (fake).
Amherst also began to restrict the amount of ammunition and gunpowder that traders could sell to Native Americans.
The Institute of Physics asked physicists from the Centre for Explosion Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to use explosion physics to work out the effects of detonating about 36 barrels [5,511lb] of gunpowder, the amount Fawkes had packed in a cellar under the old Westminster hall.
The military treatise of Jiao Yu and Liu Ji went into a great amount of detail about the gunpowder weapons of their time.
Some may argue that he isn't a world class artist, but after spending a significant amount of time with his gunpowder drawings, I'd put him on the world class list.
