Wet fire powder
Wet fire powder is a historic projectile propellant . Wet fire powder was a high quality product by the standards of the time. It is a black powder , the charcoal part of which consists of red charcoal obtained in the retort at particularly low temperatures . The red charcoal contains a higher proportion of volatile components ( wax , tar ) compared to the charcoals commonly used today . The volatile components mean that the combustion residues are soft, less encrusted and easy to remove. In particular in the case of muzzle-loading guns with a rifled barrel, the encrustation made it more difficult to load the gun as the number of shots increases, or with small-caliber guns the bullet gets stuck in the barrel. With the advent of smokeless powder , the term was forgotten, but today's black powder still contains red charcoal to improve powder properties.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The explosives and explosives; Hermann Kast, 1921 pp. 111, 112, 114.
- ↑ Lueger 1904, section “Munitions” .