Jim Watson
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Combustion requires a fuel and an oxidizer.
You know, like gasoline and air.
Strictly speaking, smokeless gunpowder does not "burn."
As I said before, nitrocellulose is a single unstable chemical compound. Well, a family of chemical compounds because cellulose is pretty variable in polysaccharide chain length. The nitroglycerine in double base powders is a single unstable chemical compound.
When "ignited" by a primer, it decomposes energetically, generating the large volume of hot gas that drives the bullet down the barrel.
Combustion requires a fuel and an oxidizer.
You know, like gasoline and air.
Strictly speaking, smokeless gunpowder does not "burn."
As I said before, nitrocellulose is a single unstable chemical compound. Well, a family of chemical compounds because cellulose is pretty variable in polysaccharide chain length. The nitroglycerine in double base powders is a single unstable chemical compound.
When "ignited" by a primer, it decomposes energetically, generating the large volume of hot gas that drives the bullet down the barrel.