Energetic Materials, Volume 12
Subtitle: Part 1. Decomposition, Crystal and Molecular Properties (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry)
Contributors: P.A. Politzer (Editor); JS Murray (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: November 25, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780444515186
First sentence: It is reported that the Chinese discovered black powder as early as 200 AD, but the earliest surviving record is in a Chinese military manual "Wu Jing Zong Yao" dated 1044 A.D.