According to Wilson, Khonsura A. in "Encyclopedia of African religion", the term could also be applied as "a (personal and/or honorific) title or (...) (could) refer to one's most prized possession".
Drugi pomembni razvoj za kemijsko tehnologijo eksplozivov je bil razvoj nitroceluloze leta 1865, ki jo je odkril Frederick Augustus Abel in izum Nobelovega dinamita leta 1866.