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Перевод: gunpowder

[существительное]
порох ; черный порох

Тезаурус:

1. This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining.
2. For three hundred years, until around 1934, Faversham was a major centre of gunpowder manufacture, and one of the former factories, Chart Mills, was saved from demolition in recent years by the Faversham Society, when the area in which it stands was being cleared for a new housing estate.
3. Added to this was the important fact that the works could be sited in remote places for safety, for the making of gunpowder was a dangerous business.
4. This time, however, his dozen men engulfed by thousands of Highlanders, Molloy was forced to surrender, on favourable terms, the victorious Jacobites eagerly seizing his stock of food and then using its own gunpowder to demolish the barracks; the resulting ruins remain to this day.
5. Saltpetre was imported from India and sulphur from Italy, and brought to the Lake District gunpowder works by water from Liverpool to Milnthorpe.
6. Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century, it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa, perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon.
7. If all the gunpowder which has ever been used in war throughout the world could be contained on a single train with 50 tons of gunpowder in each freight car, the train would be 50 miles long.
8. It was either a passage or a long, thin room, a stone-walled storage space lined with gunpowder plot-style wooden barrels.
9. They've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever.
10. Gunpowder
11. Reputed meeting place of Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
12. This could have worked and altered the course of history, had not another miner within the City devised a scheme of counter mines through which water was directed and the gunpowder flooded.
13. At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts, and again through my father's good offices, I was able to obtain both gunpowder, and materials for making Roman candle balls - dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range.