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The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
The measured powder density of the Af used here was about Af, approximately one-third that of the crystal density ( Af ).
In the first few experiments Af was passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and absorbed twice with 50 - 100 mg sweet clover tissue powder.
After Af and Af were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated twice with healthy sweet clover tissue powder, nonspecific staining was greatly reduced but a disturbing amount of such staining was still present.
In our work the best procedure for removing substances causing nonspecific staining in order to obtain specific conjugates was to pass the conjugates through a DEAE-cellulose column and in some cases to absorb the first and second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue powder.
Until the late 19th century the only available propellant was black powder.
Nitrocellulose was significantly more powerful than black powder, and was smokeless.
The anthrax was in a powder form and it was delivered by the mail.
The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.
Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel and was the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder.
Though early thermal weapons, such as Greek fire, have existed since ancient times, the first widely used explosive in warfare and mining was black powder, invented in 9th century China ( see the history of gunpowder ).
The first useful explosive stronger than black powder was nitroglycerin, developed in 1847.
As nitroglycerin was unstable, it was replaced by nitrocellulose, smokeless powder, dynamite and gelignite ( the two latter invented by Alfred Nobel ).
By 1991, it was relatively easy to produce gram-sized samples of fullerene powder using the techniques of Donald Huffman, Wolfgang Krätschmer and Konstantinos Fostiropoulos.
In older firearms, the propellant was typically black powder, but modern firearms use smokeless powder or other propellants.
Using the matchlock mechanism, the powder in the gun barrel was ignited by a piece of burning cord called a " match ".
It operated using a small wheel much like that on cigarette lighters which was wound up with a key before use and which, when the trigger was pulled, spun against a flint, creating the shower of sparks that ignited the powder in the touch hole.

powder and product
Forming the damp 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.
The French navy adopted a fine, 3. 1 millimeter, not prismatic grained product called Slow Burning Cocoa ( SBC ) or " cocoa powder ".
After the steel and reinforcing fibers are removed, and a secondary grinding, the resulting rubber powder is ready for product remanufacture.
In order to achieve the desired setting qualities in the finished product, a quantity ( 2-8 %, but typically 5 %) of calcium sulfate ( usually gypsum or anhydrite ) is added to the clinker and the mixture is finely ground to form the finished cement powder.
Initial quantities of active pharmaceutical ingredients are very expensive to produce, and using a Compaction Simulator reduces the amount of powder required for product development.
For instance, the Young's Modulus E < sub > n </ sub > of sintered iron powders remains insensitive to sintering time, alloying, or particle size in the original powder, but depends upon the density of the final product:
During World War II, Byron H. Smith, an inventor in Bangor, Maine, created a substitute product for American housewives, who were unable to obtain cream of tartar or baking powder due to war food shortages.
When mixed with baking soda, the product behaved like a single-acting baking powder, the only difference being that the acid is sodium pyrophosphate.
The combination of belladonna and opium, in powder, tincture, or alkaloid form, is particularly useful by mouth or as a suppository for diarrhoea and some forms of visceral pain ; it can be made by a compounding pharmacist, and may be available as a manufactured fixed combination product in some countries ( e. g., B & O Supprettes ).
It formed Florida Foods Corp. to produce concentrated orange juice powder, and originally sold its product to the United States Army.
The user controls the strength of the resulting product, by adding more or less powder to the water, ranging from thin " coffee water " to very strong and almost syrupy coffee.
Custard powder or Instant custard powder are the generic product names for similar and competing products.
Until 2009 many Bird's products, such as its instant custard powder, contained hydrogenated vegetable oil, a product now banned in some countries due to health concerns relating to heart disease.
In the presence of paraformaldehyde powder and triethylamine after the addition of benzene and distillation of the latter solvents, salicylaldehyde will be the major product after the addition of 10 % HCl.
Typically, the bulk quantity of a tailings product will be barren rock, crushed and ground to a fine size ranging from coarse sands down to a talcum powder consistency.
The original, darker powder blue color referred to smalt, a crushed-glass product used in laundering and dyeing applications and of a deep, dark blue hue.
Snus (; ), or Swedish snuff, Nas in Iran or Naswar in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, is a moist powder tobacco product originated from a variant of dry snuff in the early 19th century in Sweden ; consumed by placing it under the lip for extended periods of time.
This may serve to contain a liquid product or keep a powder dry.
Marezzo scagliola or American scagliola is worked with the pigmented batches of plaster in a liquid state and relies mainly on the use of Keene's cement, a unique gypsum plaster product in which plaster of Paris was steeped in alum or borate, then burned in a kiln and ground to a fine powder ; invented around 1840, it sets to an exceptionally hard state.
The dyestuff is prepared by grinding the bark in mills after it has been freed from its black epidermal layer, and sifting the product to separate the fibrous matter, the fine yellow powder which remains forming the quercitron of commerce.
Company lore is that George convinced his father to expand the product line to include A & P branded baking powder.
Before Jeong Woo Confectionery produced the popping candy, the product was always sold in powder form.

powder and developed
Curry powder is a spice mixture of widely varying composition developed by the British during the days of the Raj as a means of approximating the taste of Indian cuisine at home.
The standard DuPont Mammoth powder developed by Thomas Rodman and Lammot du Pont for use during the American Civil War had grains averaging 0. 6 inches diameter, with edges rounded in a glazing barrel.
Owing to the large market of antique and replica black powder firearms in the US, modern gunpowder substitutes like Pyrodex, Triple Seven and Black Mag3 pellets have been developed since the 1970s.
New cleaning products for black powder guns have also been developed for this market.
The ammunition was initially a steel cylinder charged with black powder and primed with a percussion cap, because self-contained brass cartridges had not yet been fully developed and become available.
The reloading of such large cartridges is also much more complex, as developing a load using a specific lot of powder can require nearly all of a 5 lb bottle of powder, and a load must be developed with but a single lot of powder for reasons of safety.
" The production of napalm was first entrusted to Nuodex Products, and by the middle of April 1942 they had developed a brown, dry powder that was not sticky by itself, but when mixed with gasoline turned into an extremely sticky and flammable substance.
In 2002, skier Shane McConkey led development of the Volant Spatula, an alpine ski developed for skiing deep powder snow.
The structure of graphite was solved in 1916 by the related method of powder diffraction, which was developed by Peter Debye and Paul Scherrer and, independently, by Albert Hull in 1917.
Hyder Ali, king of Mysore, developed war rockets with an important change: the use of metal cylinders to contain the combustion powder.
The first smokeless powder was developed in 1865 by Major Schultze of the Prussian artillery.
The rifle and the cartridge developed to utilize this powder were known generically as the 8mm Lebel, after the officer who developed its 8 mm full metal jacket bullet.
Eventually as firearms were developed, these same items were placed in front of a propellant charge of gun powder at the end of a closed tube.
The 8 mm Lebel ammunition, developed in 1886, the first smokeless powder | smokeless gunpowder cartridge to be made and adopted by any country.
Watson's mill developed into one of the largest powder mills in the South, making it a target during the American Civil War.
Once the methods were developed, powder and shot were relatively easy to mass-produce, while arrow making was a genuine craft requiring highly skilled labor.
The USDA developed this biological control and it is commercially available in powder form for application to lawn areas.
Osmium is very difficult to work with, but he developed a new method which mixed osmium oxide powder with rubber or sugar into a paste, which is then squeezed through a nozzle and fired.
Following the American Civil War Joseph and Cornelius Hoagland developed a baking powder with the help of an employee, and their formula became known as Royal Baking Powder.

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