Serpentine powder

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Serpentine powder is an early type of gunpowder made of saltpeter, charcoal and sulphur.

Before the invention of the firelock or flint-lock, about 1635, the priming was put into the pan of the wheel-lock and snaphance muskets from a flask containing serpentine powder.


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