First there was Volvo. Then came IKEA. Well get ready for the next major Swedish export: snus, a smokeless tobacco product, similar to dip or chew.
The main ingredient was nitrocellulose, which was also used in smokeless gun powder and false teeth. It was Charles Revson, who co-founded Revlon, who made nail polish popular in the United States. In the 1950s, Revson spearheaded some advertising campaigns for matching nail polishes and ...
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In 1889, research began on a new cartridge that would use smokeless powder. In line with recent developments in Europe, it would be a smaller caliber than the current round. Most single-shot breechloaders of the period were .45 caliber or larger. The newer cartridges were smaller, mostly ar...
A popular option for natural makeup devotees is mineral makeup, which is made from naturally occurring minerals such as zinc, lapis lazuli and titanium dioxide that are ground into a fine powder. Mineral makeup often comes with the claim that it's better for skin, though that hasn't been...
In truth, shooting up modern heroin is far more deadly than simply drinking a few drops of opium and it isn’t hard to imagine e-liquid being injected or turned to powder and snorted. If the use of the product evolves in that direction, it is easy to imagine the FDA increasing its ...
is typically Szczepanik – not Zeglen – who is credited as the father of the bulletproof vest. However, Szczepanik’s success was not to last. Zeglen’s design was only effective against relatively low-velocity black-powder pistol rounds; with the widespread ...
In-line percussion muzzleloaders are more modern-looking rifles that blur the line between old-school black powder rifles and contemporary smokeless models. They feature a shorter twist rate and are generally more accurate and easier to load than traditional muzzleloaders, and employ a firing cap ...