a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks

The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit, A staff of people following in attendance; a retinue, A string of gunpowder that acts as a fuse for exploding a charge, intransitive verb_ To coach in or accustom to a mode of behavior or performance, To prepare physically, as with a regimen, To travel by railroad train

Being the most desired or suitable example of something, First or early in time, order, or sequence, Mathematics Of, relating to, or being a prime number, noun_ The period of greatest physical and mental robustness, One used to distinguish different values of the same variable in a mathematical expression, The first position of thrust and parry in fencing, intransitive verb_ To make ready; prepare, To prepare (a gun or mine) for firing by inserting a charge of gunpowder or a primer, To become prepared for future action or operation

A substance consisting of ground, pulverized, or otherwise finely dispersed solid particles, A dry explosive mixture, such as gunpowder, Light dry snow, intransitive verb_ To use powder on the hair or skin, To be reduced to powder; to become like powder, transitive verb_ To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate, To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle, To reduce to fine particles