Sentences with phrase «burnt gunpowder»

The Moon is scented like «burnt gunpowder» and Titan, Saturn's Moon with «sweet and bitter almonds, cherry, slight benzene.»

As a student, Cai made works consisting of stick - figure or abstract patterns in oil and burnt gunpowder, giving him a place in the experimental ferment preceding the»85 New Wave.

But it can always be identified by scent: It smells like burnt gunpowder, according to marine biologists.

The coal - rich American West has a long history of such fires — in fact, the Powder River, whose basin in northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana is the source of about 40 percent of America's coal, was so named because the area smelled like burning gunpowder.

Not exact matches

It burns real fast, and burns all along the edges of the driveway like a line of gunpowder.

It was a candle containing a quill filled with gunpowder, and its burning excited an intense interest while we waited for the expected explosion.

Tingle loves the smell of gunpowder and burning flesh.

The event, which took Cai, his team, and eight student volunteers three hours to prepare, lasted seven seconds and burned through 66 lb of gunpowder.

Subtle color harmonies combined with veils of Japanese paper that contrast with expressionistic splashes, drips, burnt edges created by gunpowder, and a fluidity of the grounds.

St. Paul artist Lisa Friedrich will use gunpowder to burn stenciled images of Minnesota landmarks onto paper.

Yesterday, the burning woods and peat bogs threatened the ammunitiion stores of the artillery range and even Okhtensk gunpowder factory.