Because of its burning properties and the amount of heat and gas volume that it generates, gunpowder has been widely used as a propellant in firearms and as a pyrotechnic composition in fireworks.

Because < sup > 60 </ sup > Fe has such a long half-life, its persistence in materials in the solar system at high enough concentrations may have generated observable variations in the isotopic composition of < sup > 60 </ sup > Ni.

Because the cluster members are of similar age and chemical composition, the effects of other stellar properties are more easily determined than they are for isolated stars.

Because of the expansion of form ( those elements pertaining to form, key, instrumentation and the like ) within a typical composition, and the growing idiosyncrasies and expressiveness of the new composers from the new century, it thus became easier to identify an artist based on his work or style.

Because the chemical composition of garnet varies, the atomic bonds in some species are stronger than in others.

Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as " The March King " or the " American March King " due to his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford also being known as " The March King ".

Because of its retrograde orbit and composition similar to Pluto's, Triton is thought to have been captured from the Kuiper belt.

Because standard iron-thermite is difficult to ignite, burns with practically no flame and has a small radius of action, standard thermite is rarely used on its own as an incendiary composition.

Because lens design only allowed rather small aperture lenses, the image on the ground glass screen was faint and most photographers had a dark cloth to cover their heads to allow focussing and composition to be carried out more easily.

Because of variation in the composition of electrum, it was difficult to determine the exact worth of each coin.

Because their composition is unchanged by distillation, azeotropes are also called ( especially in older texts ) constant boiling mixtures.

Because composition of morphisms is bilinear, the composition of a zero morphism and any other morphism ( on either side ) must be another zero morphism.

Because of the composition of the British Army, at this point a volunteer force with many battalions comprising men from particular localities, these losses ( and those of the campaign as a whole ) had a profound social impact.

Because of the popularity of Times Roman at the time, Monotype chose to design a variant of Times Roman suited to mathematical composition, and recut many additional characters needed for mathematics, including special symbols as well as Greek and Fraktur alphabets, to accompany the system instead of designing it around the typeface that was being used, for which characters were already available.

Because these experimentally determined BEs are characteristic of specific elements, they can be directly used to identify experimentally measured peaks of a material with unknown elemental composition.

This was eventually converted into a full-fledged prize: " For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year .” Because of the requirement that the composition had its world premiere during the year of its award, the winning work had rarely been recorded and sometimes had received only one performance.

Because the composition of a target index is a known quantity, it costs less to run an index fund.

Because of the city's racial composition, it has not been part of the integration busing program between the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County.

Because lichens do not possess roots, their primary source of most elements is the air, and therefore elemental levels in lichens often reflect the accumulated composition of ambient air.

Because of poor census exact figures about the size and composition of ethnic groups are not available.

Because many changes in body composition ( such as fat and muscle loss or gain ) do not affect the weight of cremated remains, the weight of the remains can be more closely predicted from the person's height and sex ( which predicts skeletal weight ), than it can be predicted from the person's simple weight.

Because in an ideal gas of constant composition the speed of sound depends only on temperature and not on the gas pressure or density, the speed of sound in the atmosphere with altitude takes on the form of the complicated temperature profile ( see illustration immediately above ), and does not mirror altitudinal changes in density or pressure.

Because of the Syrian civil war relations between Syria and Turkey have become increasingly tense.

Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the coastal cities of Malabar are very cosmopolitan and have hosted some of the first groups of Christians ( now known as Syrian Malabar Nasranis ), Anglo-Indians, Jews ( today called as Cochin Jews ), and Muslims ( at present known as Mappilas ) in India.

Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.

Because of this unreliability, soldiers carrying muskets, known as musketeers, were armed with additional weapons such as swords or pikes.

" Because of Moseley's death in World War I, the British government instituted a policy of no longer allowing its prominent and promising scientists to enlist for combat duty in the armed forces of the Crown.

Because of a long history of neutrality, the army does not take part in armed conflicts in other countries, but takes part in peacekeeping missions around the world.

Because Rolemaster's approach to combat favors a warrior that is properly armed and armored, a character that is poorly-equipped ( as is typically the case with newly-generated characters ) is decidedly vulnerable.

Because the British occupation forces who had arrived to accept the Japanese surrender were short of troops, they armed French POWs on September 22 to protect the city from a potential Viet Minh attack.

Because its primary function is to coordinate a fleet, a flagship is not necessarily more heavily armed or fortified than other ships.

Because regular armed forces units do not have the flexibility and independence of small covert cells, many believe that the concept of a powerful occupying force actually creates a disadvantage.

Because coca was one ingredient in the production of cocaine, the U. S. sent their own armed forces into El Chapare in order to aid the Bolivian authorities in halting its production.

Because of the dangers inherent in armed confrontation, even police or soldiers who might strongly prefer to take an enemy alive may still kill to protect themselves or civilians, and potentially cross the line into extrajudicial murder.

Because the ruling class will not relinquish power without their use of armed force, this revolution will be a time of violence as well as liberation.

Because of the delays William had no work for them and this caused further anger, at one stage Nelson was almost in a state of armed rebellion against the Company ’ s agents.

Because they are not part of the United Kingdom, they are not answerable to the British Government ; instead they are organised by and are responsible to their own governments ( an exception to this is the Sovereign Base Areas Police-because the SBAs existence is purely for the benefit of the British armed forces and do not have full overseas territory status, the SBA Police are responsible to the Ministry of Defence ).

Because many members of state defense forces are veterans who have retained ranks received from service in the armed forces, some state defense forces have an inflated grade structure.

Because the plane had been designed for the Swedish Air Force they were considerably more powerfully armed than the U. S. model, which carried only two. 30-caliber machine guns firing through the propeller.

Because the statistics prove that this armed robbery pays the most for the least amount of risk.

Because the regiment had been formed by Royal Warrant, it was legally part of the Crown's armed forces, even though it had been out of the country for three decades.

Because of the continual bureaucratic postponements of the paramilitary invasion, the CIA worried that their Guatemalan army of liberation, or any other Guatemalan armed rebel-group, might prove over-eager and prematurely launch a coup d ’ état.

Because of the complexity of the missile and the need for extensive testing prior to launch, the V-2's designers at the Peenemünde Army Research Center favoured using heavily defended fixed sites where the missiles could be stored, armed, and fueled from an on-site LOX production plant before launching.

Because of their political principles and continued armed uprisings, Russia's leftist parties were undecided whether to participate in the Duma elections, which had been called for early 1906.

Because the Yugoslav Army was at the time armed with US arms and locally developed German World War II equipment, the German and American vehicles, machine guns, radios and entrenching tools are remarkably accurate.

Because they are usually transported by air, such military units are usually lightly armed, but often extremely well trained to compensate for their lower calibre weapons and lack of heavy equipment like tanks.

Because the plantation owners had long feared such a revolt, they were well armed and prepared to defend themselves.