Assertion: gunpowder | /r/CapableOf | become redundant
Facets:
value: for gunnery
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: It was only a matter of time before gunpowder became redundant for gunnery, and it was displaced by cordite, which is a mixture of nitro-glycerine, guncotton and petroleum jelly, about the end of the 19th century, although some Belgian forts still used gunpowder in 1914.