Timeline for What explosives could a small stone-age island nation feasibly discover?
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| Nov 6, 2019 at 12:54 | answer | added | Christmas Snow | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 12:00 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 4:59 | history | edited | Gryphon |
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| Oct 9, 2019 at 12:00 | answer | added | David Hambling | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 9, 2019 at 5:09 | history | edited | Gryphon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2019 at 21:13 | comment | added | pojo-guy | China used explosives (rockets, fireworks) with bamboo and paper in ancient history. Metal just makes the parts more durable and precise. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 10:42 | vote | accept | Gryphon | ||
| Apr 25, 2017 at 4:54 | answer | added | loreson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 11:23 | comment | added | Chris H | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 2:17 | comment | added | KC Wong | Perhaps like Bombarider Beetle (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle)... by mixing chemicals with exothermic reactions, and a way to properly direct the explosive force. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 1:53 | comment | added | user2051 | @Andon - that may not be related to availability of metal, but the fact that modern chemistry didn't really begin until the mid/late 1800s... | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 1:48 | comment | added | user2051 | (Almost) all explosive materials that I've heard of are organic compounds... typically some mix of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen... although the industrial process to produce these compounds would be hard to replicate without metal, it might be possible with ceramics and/or glass... | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:58 | comment | added | Andon | Nothing else was really discovered until the mid/late 1800s, so your options are generally limited to gunpowder, gunpowder, and gunpowder. That said, there are numerous ways to USE it. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:31 | answer | added | Paul TIKI | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:31 | answer | added | Flummox uses codidact.com | timeline score: 29 | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:19 | answer | added | Mormacil | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:15 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 20:01 | history | asked | Gryphon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |