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Does gunpowder produce CO2

Updated: 4/28/2022
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12y ago

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It is my understanding that gunpowder is a mixture of Sulfur, Charcoal, and Saltpeter or aka Potassium Nitrate.

The unbalanced equation would look like this--

KNO3(s)+C(s)+S(s)---->N2(g)+CO2(g)+K2S(s).

So the answer is yes, gunpowder does produce CO2.

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