Hot shot was intended to be fired at wooden ships and to cause ignition of gun powder.

But everyone can mix carbon, sulphur and salt peter to make gun powder.

He had fired both barrels and the smell of gun powder burned in his nostrils.

The scent of spent gun powder charged the air.

His gun powder and assault rifles, while illegal, were not weapons meant for some dark purpose.

He used gun powder, other implements of warfare that were modern in his day.

I don't know how much gun powder to put in these.

And there's something different about their gun powder, too.

It is similar to gun powder but with less kick.

A Greek proverb notes that a fat belly did not invent gun powder.