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chained_bear commented on the word lycoperdium
"Jack was speaking to the gunner at the time, explaining that the private powder in the kegs marked X was mixed with red orpiment, and XX with antimony or copper, while still others had lycoperdium or camphor or strontium..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 50
February 11, 2008