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It was here in 1775 that 100 barrels of gunpowder mysteriously disappeared from stores in Fort St. Catherine and found their way onto a boat bound for the use of the American revolutionaries.
Other school activies common in the early 19th-century, according to Kett: wild student riots on college campuses, sometimes leading to the deaths of professors or locals (in the 1820s, Harvard students set off a keg of gunpowder); high school duels involving knives or guns, sometimes culminating in the deaths of students; scrimmages between higher and lower classes, sometimes leading to massive injuries on one side or the other, or both.
Potassium chloride (KCl), on the other hand, can be made to react with Chile saltpeter (see above) to produce true saltpeter: potassium nitrate (KNO3), an essential ingredient of gunpowder, whose other two components are sulfur and carbon; the three can be combined to explosive effect in as simple proportions by weight as 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
The explosion of gunpowder is evidently the same, as is the flight of the cannonball.
… The top 10 inventions include electrification, contraceptives, gunpowder, and calculus.