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Sulphurless powder

Most blackpowders contain 75% of potassium nitrate, 15% of charcoal and 10% of sulphur. For safety fuse, however, blackpowders are made with reduced amounts of potassium nitrate. Also manufactured are sulphurless powders, containing approximately 70% of potassium nitrate with 30% of charcoal. These sulphurless powders are used for ignition purposes where sulphur could cause corrosion of metallic components. [Pg.165]

Prior to the invention of smokeless powder various attempts had been made to improve blackpowder. In particular experiments were carried out to obtain sulphurless powder, ammonium powder (with ammonium nitrate instead of potas-... [Pg.330]

Various modifications of black powder are known. One of the most popular is sulphurless black powder (Vol. (II, p. 331). Fedoroff and associates [18] mentioned over twenty different modifications of black powder. [Pg.617]

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