cammabark

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