gunpowder

Converse of object

• ignite: With any luck it would ignite the gunpowder causing an explosion - which would cause the cannon ball to leave the gun.
• make: The branches make good charcoal, which is valuable for making gunpowder.
• use: The stair tower was removed, using gunpowder, in the late 1700s.
• put: Would you put gunpowder in a high place, or a low one?
• carry: In July 1784, according to the Staffordshire Advertiser, one such wagon was carrying gunpowder.
• produce: The gunpowder produced was used for blasting by the then thriving tin and granite mining industries.

Preposition: in

century: The Garrison and Powder Magazine was the major storage location for gunpowder in the 18th century.

Adjective modifier

• enough: Cromwell ordered its destruction but there was not have enough gunpowder to complete the task!
• more: Imagine having a large and powerful cannon, the more gunpowder packed behind the cannon ball the further it will travel.
• little: Some of the liquor was poured over a little gunpowder and ignited.
• black: The principle ingredient of black gunpowder is KNO 3, which is, in itself, a salt.
• real: But a maid had mistakenly filled the pot with real gunpowder instead of Chinese tea.
• high: High class gunpowder was needed for the military and for gun sports.

Modifies a noun

• treason: I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
• plot: The infamous gunpowder plot was hatched by Guy Fawkes 400 years ago in Northamptonshire.
• mill: Faversham Chart Gunpowder Mills The oldest gunpowder mill in the world is part of a complex which includes remains of three others.
• factory: How could you confuse a gunpowder factory with a blizzard?
• manufacture: Waltham Abbey was in Napoleonic times one of the most important places in Britain for gunpowder manufacture, using water power.
• store: The Army Museum, which occupies the old gunpowder store of the castle of San Felipe is in the southern part of the bay.

Noun used with modifier

century: For several centuries gunpowder was the only explosive used in military mining.