Pulvis pyrius

Pulvis pyrius.

Pulvis pyrius vel pulvis incendiarius est mixtura trium chemicorum, videlicet carbonis, sulfuris, et salis petrae, quae summa cum rapiditate flagrat, magnum gasium volumen efficiens. Haec gasia tam rapide expandunt ut, cum confiniuntur, eruptionem violentem creent. Adhibebatur in sclopetis (quapropter Anglice gunpowder, scilicet 'pulvis sclopeti' dicitur) ubi, eruptione temperata, gasia pulveris flagrantis glandem plumbeam ex tubo propellunt.

Pulvis pyrius a Sinensibus creatus creditur, et in Europa ab saeculo tertio decimo notescebat postquam formula eius a Rogerio Bacone descripta est.

Formula chemica est KNO₃ + S + C

Vide etiam

• Pyrotechnica

Bibliographia

• Benton, Captain James G. (1862), Ordinance and Gunnery (2 ed.), West Point, New York: Thomas Publications, ISBN 1-57747-079-6 .
• Brown, G. I. (1998), The Big Bang: A History of Explosives, Sutton Publishing, ISBN 0-7509-1878-0 .
• Buchanan, Brenda J., ed. (2006), Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological History, Aldershot: Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-5259-9 .
• Chase, Kenneth (2003), Firearms: A Global History to 1700, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-82274-2 .
• Cocroft, Wayne (2000), Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 1-85074-718-0 .
• Crosby, Alfred W. (2002), Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-79158-8 .
• Earl, Brian (1978), Cornish Explosives, Cornwall: The Trevithick Society, ISBN 0-904040-13-5 .
• al-Hassan, Ahmad Y., "Gunpowder Composition for Rockets and Cannon in Arabic Military Treatises In Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", History of Science and Technology in Islam .
• Johnson, Norman Gardner, "explosive", Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Online .
• Kelly, Jack (2004), Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-03718-6 .
• Khan, Iqtidar Alam (1996), "Coming of Gunpowder to the Islamic World and North India: Spotlight on the Role of the Mongols", Journal of Asian History 30: 41–5 .
• Khan, Iqtidar Alam. 1996a. The Role of the Mongols in the Introduction of Gunpowder and Firearms in South Asia. Capitulum 3 in Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology, ed. Brenda J. Buchanan. Bath: Bath University Press. ISBN 0-86197-134-5.
• Khan, Iqtidar Alam (2004), Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, Oxford University Press .
• Needham, Joseph (1986), Science & Civilisation in China, V:7: The Gunpowder Epic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-30358-3 .
• Norris, John (2003), Early Gunpowder Artillery: 1300-1600, Marlborough: The Crowood Press .
• Partington, J.R. (1960), A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, Cantabrigiae: W. Heffer & Sons .
• Partington, James Riddick; Hall, Bert S. (1999), A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, Baltimorae: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-5954-9 
• Urbanski, Tadeusz (1967), Chemistry and Technology of Explosives, III, Novi Eboraci: Pergamon Press .

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad pulverem pyrium spectant.

Vide pulverem pyrium in Victionario.

• "Gun and Gunpowder," www.silk-road.com
• Originss pulveris pyrii, www.webcitation.org
• "Cannons and Gunpowder," www.du.edu
• "Oare Gunpowder Works, Kent, UK," www.gunpowderworks.co.uk
• Royal Gunpowder Mills, www.royalgunpowdermills.com
• "The DuPont Company on the Brandywine," exhibitio digitalis a Bibliotheca Hagley producta, www.hagley.org
• "Ulrich Bretschler's Gunpowder Chemistry page" 
• "Video Demonstration" pgilipmcgaw.com
• "Black Powder Recipes," www.musketeer.ch