Eprouvette

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Template:Title lang An Script error: No such module "Lang". is a one piece, fixed elevation mortar used by ordnance departments and armories to test the strength of gunpowder.

A carefully weighed quantity of powder (charge) was placed inside the device, followed by a standard weight shot. The charge was fired and the distance the shot flew was measured and compared to the expected standard distance. Script error: No such module "Lang". were first introduced in the middle of the 1600s and went out of general use by the middle of the 19th century.[1]

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An Eprouvette pistol

Script error: No such module "Lang". were also used to test the strength of small-arms powder, starting in the second half of the 1500s. These evolved into pistol-size devices which were used until the end of the black powder era, at the close of the 1800s.[1][2]

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