HOPEWELL — Open since January 2021, Guncotton Coffee will close this month. With heavy hearts, co-owners Crisman White and Larry Hancock made a straightforward, formal announcement on Facebook ...

An explosion that wiped out half a town and killed dozens of people more than 150 years ago is being remembered. Known as the "guncotton explosion", a build-up of vapours from chemically soaked cotton ...

HOPEWELL - Entrepreneurs form a partnership to reopen Guncotton Coffee in Downtown Hopewell to carry on the foundation set by its former manager Ginny Gum and her baristas Laura and Sarah. "Happy to ...

II. IN the year 1846 Schönbein discovered guncotton. In the year 1886, that is, forty years later, the French chemist Vieille invented his smokeless powder for military purposes. This explosive, which ...

[Integza] hates tomatoes, but loves rocketry. Thus, he decided to see if he could process his most-loathed fruit into some sort of rocket fuel, or at least something relatively flammable. The ...

Answer: Flash paper, guncotton, nitrocellulose, it’s all the same stuff with different names. It was a serendipity, or chance discovery. Christian Friedrich Schonbein (1799-1868) was a German-Swiss ...

It was said the explosion was so big it lifted a farm barn off the ground An explosion that wiped out half a town and killed dozens of people more than 150 years ago is being remembered. Known as the ...

FOR centuries the only explosive known to the world was that mechanical mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur called gunpowder. Chemical explosives may be said to date from the discovery of ...