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The earliest recorded use of the term gonne was in a Latin document circa 1339. Other names for guns during this era were schioppi (Italian translation-thunderers), and donrebusse (Dutch translation-thunder gun) which was incorporated into the English language as blunderbuss. Artillerymen were often referred to as gonners and artillers. Early guns and the men who used them were often associated with the devil and the gunner's craft was considered a black art, a point reinforced by the smell of sulfur on battlefields created from the firing of guns along accompanying flash and with the muzzle blast
Generally, guns use compressed gas confined by the barrel to propel the bullet up to high speed, though devices operating in other ways are sometimes called guns. In guns that are firearms the high pressure gas is generated by combustion, usually of gun powder. This principle is similar to that of internal combustion engines, except that the bullet leaves the barrel, but the piston transfers its motion to other parts and returns down the cylinder. As in an internal combustion engine, the combustion propagates by deflagration. This is because much of the energy generated in detonation is in the form of a shock wave, which can propagate from the gas to the solid structure and heat or damage the structure, rather than staying as heat to propel the piston or bullet. The speed of a shock wave at such high temperature and pressure is much faster than that of any bullet
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