Another word for gunpowder

"So you want to smell gunpowder?" he said to Pierre.

"It may be treachery," said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, and the glory that awaited him.

Some houses were at once blown up by gunpowder, and thus the fire was finally mastered.

Its principal manufactures are gunpowder, carpets, brick, cotton press machinery, and coffin hardware.

Gunpowder had not yet been invented.