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  • Beneath the colors of powder and cammabark exploding was the red-tinged white of released chaos.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Even for all that, he was getting closer to one of the magazines holding powder - or cammabark - and the locked chaos of the powder was definitely stronger to his order-senses.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Kharl knew that few armies used firearms, either the kind fired by cammabark or by powder, because a chaos-mage could trigger any powder not contained within iron - and sometimes even propellant that was so contained.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Supposedly, a white mage could fire gunpowder or cammabark.

    Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004

  • Since it couldn't be cast, that meant, at least so far, that the Blacks hadn't been able to make more than a handful of black iron guns " just those on the Mighty Ten " and since the Whites could touch off cammabark or powder held in regular iron, albeit with difficulty, anyone who wasn't a White or on a Black ship risked having cannon blow up on them.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Since it couldn't be cast, that meant, at least so far, that the Blacks hadn't been able to make more than a handful of black iron guns - just those on the Mighty Ten - and since the Whites could touch off cammabark or powder held in regular iron, albeit with difficulty, anyone who wasn't a White or on a Black ship risked having cannon blow up on them.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • We can't use gunpowder or cammabark because the Whites would blow us apart with our own powder.

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

  • The most feasible option would appear to be the immediate construction of a fleet of fast sailing vessels of comparatively narrow beam, with deep keels, and extensive sails, capable of carrying conventional cannon powered by cammabark or some form of black powder. "

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • The use of cammabark as a cannon propellant appears promising .... "

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Jarnish's nephew found some cammabark in the marshlands, and I'll offer it to the Spidlarian Council. "

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

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