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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377This week I'm making my own black powder at home! Combining Potassium Nitrate (75%) with Charcoal (15%) and Sulfur (10%) gives us a nice, slowburning black...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377How to Make Gunpowder at Home. A mixture of 75% potassium nitrate (saltpeter), 15% charcoal, and 10% sulfur must be made in order to make gunpowder at home. The ingredients should then be combined after being individually ground into a fine powder. Finally, to remove big chunks, pour the mixture through a fine mesh.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Originally, gunpowder was made by mixing elemental sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter (potassium nitrate). There was no definitive opinion as to what the ratios should be, and this changed dramatically from country to country and over time. The current modern ratio of 75% nitrate,15% charcoal, 10% sulfur was settled upon sometime in the mid 18th ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The Invention of Gunpowder and Its Introduction Into EuropeOverviewBlack powder, now known as gunpowder, was the chief tool of war until the modern discovery of explosives such as nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. While gunpowder is still used in mining and fireworks, it is a much less valuable commodity now than it was hundreds of years ago.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377History of gunpowder. Earliest known written formula for gunpowder, from the Wujing Zongyao of 1044 AD. Gunpowder is the first explosive to have been developed. Popularly listed as one of the "Four Great Inventions" of China, it was invented during the late Tang dynasty (9th century) while the earliest recorded chemical formula for gunpowder ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal is a combustible black or brownishblack sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is a type of fossil fuel, formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The biggest coal deposit by volume is the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, which the USGS estimated to have trillion short tons of inplace coal resources, 162 billion short tons of recoverable coal resources, and 25 billion short tons of economic coal resources (also called reserves) in 2013.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Coal dust is a finepowdered form of coal which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverization of coal rock. Because of the brittle nature of coal, coal dust can be created by mining, transporting, or mechanically handling it.. Grinding or pulverizing coal to a dust form before combusting it improves the speed and efficiency of burning, which makes the coal easier to handle.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In gunpowder, saltpeter supplies oxygen for the reaction. Charcoal typically burns slowly because of the limited amount of oxygen reaching the surface area of the wood. Grinding charcoal to a powder increases the surface area while saltpeter acts as the oxidizer, supplying a massive quantity of oxygen needed to rapidly burn the mixture.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Historically, this is a pretty odd way of making gunpowder. For most of history, people with guns have also had a source of saltpeter. During the Napoleonic Wars, however, France could not import ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Same applies here, but for me, it's experimentation. Here are some numbers. Potassium nitrate is about 3/lb and composes 80+% of the mixture. Sulfur is about 2/lb. Charcoal is the most expensive (and minimal use ingredient) at about 15/lb. A pound of homemade powder could be made for sub 5/lb.
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