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West Point Uniforms Signify Explosive Chemistry

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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U.S. Military Academy cadets wear the colors black, gray and gold for reasons found in gunpowder’s chemistry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Steve Merski.

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The early years of the development of gunpowder, it was known as the devil's distillate because of its seemingly sinister properties.

0:47.3

So where do those properties come from?

0:49.7

Well, they come from the three principal ingredients of gunpowder, which are sulfur, charcoal, and salt

0:55.0

peter, three naturally occurring materials, which, when combined, produce something much

1:01.9

greater than the sum of their parts.

1:03.5

Stephen Ressler.

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He served 34 years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and retired as a Brigadier General.

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He spoke at sea aboard a

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scientific American cruise August 17th off the coast of Scotland. His subject was how fortifications

1:18.2

had to evolve once gunpowder was widely in use. Wrestler revealed a little basic chemistry

1:24.3

about the constituents of gunpowder and how they're represented in a familiar

1:28.8

uniform. Sulfur of mineral found in nature, yellowish or golden color burns at a relatively

1:35.4

low temperature, and that made it a material of intense interest in the Middle Ages where

1:42.5

alchemists were constantly looking for magical properties

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