From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The perceived smell of hydrogen sulphide is disproportionate to its
concentration in air anyway. It is an extremely pungent gas. It is also
rather more toxic than hydrogen cyanide, and you would soon notice if there
were appreciable quantities of that abo
From: David Chappell - UK, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, yes, my chemistry was simplified. Perhaps overly so.
This is because burning black powder does not correspond
to any simple chemical reaction between stoichiometrical
proportions of the ingredients. This means that the
empirical formula quoted i
From: Donald Campbell, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Also, one of the products of combustion is
>Sulphuric acid, a recognised corrosive which will attack steel.>>
>
>Yes Potassium Nitrate (KNO3 (all my trailing numbers are
>subscript :-))is a
From: "EVANS,CHRIS (HP-Unitedkingdom,ex1)", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Science will beat the anoraks any day.
> Chemically, the empirical formula for combustion of Black
> Powder can be written as follows:
>Heat>
> 4KNO4 + 7C + 2S = K2CO3 + K2S2 + 3CO2 + 2N2
>
From: David Chappell - UK, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh dear, I was trying to avoid the anorak chemical stuff but
it appears I can't so sorry:
Chris Evans said:
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Yes Potassium Nitrate (KNO3 (all my trailing numbers are
subscript :-))is an oxidiser - it is where we get our oxygen
for the combustion
From: "EVANS,CHRIS (HP-Unitedkingdom,ex1)", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Chappell wrote:
>OK, I have been using black powder for a very long time -
>I will say again that black powder is NOT corrosive. It
>does not contain anything that is corrosive, nor do the
>products of combustion contain anyth
From: David Chappell - UK, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I have been using black powder for a very long time -
I will say again that black powder is NOT corrosive. It
does not contain anything that is corrosive, nor do the
products of combustion contain anything that is.
There are a lot of myths about
