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Default The discovery of iodine and Bonaparte's war machine.
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Jumble - Houston Chronicle

Scour.
Hatch.
Iodine.
Scarce.
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/iodine.htm

Materials for the manufacturing of gunpowder were getting scarce after Napoleon's many campaigns and their battles. The French had to scour new areas and come up with new ways of creating gunpowder which indirectly led to the discovery of iodine. This hatched another struggle about who would get the credit of the discovery of this new chemical element.