Assertion: gunpowder's grain | /r/CapableOf | diminish total surface of combustion
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text: To obviate guns' this defect, the grains or pieces were made much larger, so as to diminish the total surface of combustion, and, con-sequently, the volume of gas evolved at the first instant of explosion; the powder was also given a considerably higher density, which retarded its combustion.