Boom!: The Chemistry and History of Explosives by Simon Quellen Field

Boom!: The Chemistry and History of Explosives

Simon Quellen Field

288 pages first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced
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Black powder, the world’s first chemical explosive, was originally developed during the Tang dynasty in China, in the seventh century. It was a crude mixture at first, but over time chemists discovered the optimum proportion of sulfur, charcoal, a...

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