Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Words have multiple meanings. That's the way English...at least American English...works. When you drink from your hydration reservoir are you drinking from a large lake that is used to store water? Or is your bladder a a distensible membranous sac, an inflated fruit or vesicle in various plants, a fluid-filled cavity in metacestodes of some Trypanorhyncha, Tetraphyllidea and Cyclophyllidea, a bag that fills with air, a bag that fills with water, or losed-end, thick rubber, cylindrical shaped piece that contains the nitrogen gas in shock absorber.
You need to read further. From the
Wikipedia explosion topic
Explosion was not originally used to describe the detonation of explosives. The etymology of the word is far from that. From the On
line Etymology dictionary
Personally I don`t take anything as gospel just because its posted on the Internet. Without required references its far to easy to post anything so what you posted as sources is just supposition.
Blackpowder was around for hundreds of years before any of the sources you quoted and it is a confirmable fact that Sir Francis Bacon did extensive experiments with over a decade - the results of which were published formally in 1268 in Latin. That much is high school history. There are reports that the term was named after one of his assistants - actually I really don`t care.
What does concern me is that nothing in this thread is of any value to the OP`s original concern and I`m personally completely uninterested in a pissing match as I`ve see you do with other posters.You may have time to burn - I don`t. At the moment the bicycle shops are keeping me busy 60+ hours a week and the only reason I`m on here is to ocassionally give what might be some useful advice.
At this point I`m dropping this thread and I`l be ignoring any and all of your posts in the future.