Gunpowder
Gunpowder , also known as explosive , is a collective term for propellants for firearms , which, when modified, can also be used as propellants for rockets .
General
Black powder was the first known propellant for firearms and solid rocket rockets and is still used today. Wet-fire powder was a further development for use in muzzle-loading weapons. Nitrocellulose powder , which, in contrast to the previously used black powder, consists of so-called low-smoke cellulose nitrate powders , is widespread today. Instead of the term “gunpowder”, which was historically derived from black powder, the term propellant powder is also used today. These include, along with the initiating explosives , explosives , gunpowder detonators and pyrotechnics to explosives .
Gunpowder
Black powder is the oldest known gunpowder and propellant.
Low smoke powder / nitrocellulose powder
In modern weapons, mostly low-smoke nitrocellulose powder (NC powder) is used as a propellant charge.
See also
literature
- Julius Upmann : The gunpowder - history, manufacture, properties and samples . 1874. Unique 2013, ISBN 978-3845726014 .
- Rainer Leng (Ed.): Instructions for preparing gunpowder, loading and shooting rifles - a war-technical illuminated manuscript (= Imagines medii aevi, Volume 5). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-89500-161-9 .
- Brenda J. Buchanan (Ed.): Gunpowder. The History of an International Technology. Bath University Press, 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on ammunition. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on 2020-03-05.