You don't need each of these ingredients.
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Here is a list with link on how to make each possible ingredient. So before you can make your black powder you need to determine which of the following ingredients you have the ability to make on your own. So my black powder is not going to be as good as someone with access to sulfur. Unfortunately for me I live in an area that I am not likely to be able to obtain this ingredient. And it is the speed of the reaction that is important when talking about firing a gun. Sulfur as an ingredient will greatly enhance the rapidity of reaction. Ideally you want to use a recipe with sulfur. Point here is that all the recipes below will work but some will burn faster than others and you want faster. So we are looking to make something that not only burns like dry wood but goes through a similar reaction (yes burning wood is a chemical reaction of wood to gas) in less than a second. Explosives are a category of chemicals that react fast enough to be useful in weapons and mining and other things as well. Because the volume increase does no good if it doesn't generate high pressures and once the bullet is pushed from your barrel any gunpowder that has not yet burned will be wasted. But if it doesn't burn fast enough it isn't very useful. It is simply this volume increase that is so useful with black powder. As solids or liquids turn to gas their volume increases greatly. Bad news is not all recipes are equal.įirst let's talk a bit of unnecessary chemistry and physics.
There are many recipes and where you live could impact which recipe you choose. The bad news is that it isn't a simple quick process. So at some point the ability to make your own black powder will be more valuable than anything. Or hey if you are like me and don't have enough money to go out and buy a million rounds of ammo then ammo depletion will run out much more quickly. No matter how much ammo you have it will eventually run out, maybe not in your lifetime, but your kids and their kids.
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