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Gunpowder is a card part of the Great Inventions collection part of the A to Z of the Ancient World Binder
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It is generally accepted that the Chinese invented gunpowder. However, the explosive mixture we now call 'black powder', which they made as early as the 7th century AD, was not used as the agent for propelling charges in guns or blasting rocks until later
- Black Powder is still used for ignition charges and blank-fire charges in military ammunition.
- In varying amounts, it is also an ingredient of fireworks, time fuses, signals and spatter charges fpor practice bombs.
- Black powder was not used for mining or road building until the late 1600s. It was gradually replaced by dynamite for mining