gunpowder• This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining.• The bill says nothing about requiring taggants in gunpowder, only studying them.• The National RifleAssociation says taggants in gunpowder might act like a matchstruck near gasoline.• The family fortune had been established by Evelyn's grandfather, who had acquired the monopoly of making gunpowder under the Tudors.• The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowdertied to the man's neck.• Benjamin followed, studying the coiledslowfuses, jars of oil and small barrels of gunpowderpiled there.• Not a bad way to go, in a blaze of your own gunpowder.• The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder.