Re: Black powder

From: DrStupid <DrStupid@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:39:09 +0200

fargowest@xxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:

Bob is correct: so-called black powder is in fact a dark gray color.

Maybe the name "black powder" has nothing to do with the color of this mixture but with the German monk and alchimist Berthold Schwarz. "Schwarz" is the German word for black.
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