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What temperature does gunpowder ignite?
Gunpowder will ignite somewhere between 300 to 350° C
What happens when you smash gunpowder with a hammer?
Nothing.. Gunpowder does not impact-detonate, which is why bullets have a "primer" that will ignite the gunpowder when it is struck. Nothing.. Gunpowder does not impact-detonate, which is why bullets have a "primer" that will ignite the gunpowder when it is struck.
What do you need gunpowder for?
To ignite a reaction.
What will ignite gunpowder?
Heat or an impact.
Could you ignite gunpowder with a piezoelectric crystal?
Yes.
Can a spark ignite gunpowder?
Yes sparks can set gunpowder off. There is a gun called a Flintlock, used mostly in the 18th and 19th centuries, it has a flint which creates a spark that ignites the gunpowder.
Is gumpowder in fireworks?
Gunpowder is used in artillery and roman candles. In artillery shells, there is a container of gunpowder that shoots the shell into the air and when the time burns to the inside of the shell, there is gunpowder inside that ignites the stars. In roman candles, gunpowder is placed underneath each of the stars in the tube to ignite and shoot them into the air. A long fus eis placed inside the tube to ignite the sections one after another. Some rockets have artillery shells on them without the gunpowder container on the bottom.
What is a matlock pistol?
I think you mean "matchlock". This was a very early form of a firearm. It used a smoldering cloth string (the match) to ignite the gunpowder.
What were the bombs filled with that the US dropped on Tokyo during World War 2?
Just your average explosives. Thankfully they weren't nuclear or else we'd be having some serious problems with Japan. (They would undoubtedly be, and irreversibly be, angry with us.) But the bombs again were only filled with gunpowder and materials used to make dynamite. The gunpowder helped to ignite the dynamite if the initial fuse couldn't because the only way gunpowder WONT ignite is if it is wet.
How does the hammer in a gun cause the powder in a round to ignite?
The hammer itself doesn't cause gunpowder to ignite. In modern smokeless powder firearms, it typically works one of two ways. Either the hammer will directly make contact with the rim (in rimfire cartridges) or the primer (in centrefire cartridges), which causes the propellant in either the rim or the primer to ignite. This causes a chain reaction which ignites the gunpowder. What's more common in modern centrefire firearms is that the hammer will strike a firing pin, and the firing pin will strike the primer.
Why did old guns not have bullets?
Old guns DID have bullets- that is the thing that is shot from the gun. They did not have cartridges, since they used loose gunpowder and bullets, and sparks created by flint on steel to ignite the powder.
How do you explode the fire can in the diamond mines?
Push the explosive barrel to the right until it hits a wall. It will leave a trail of gunpowder. Go to the switch and turn it on and the light will ignite the gun powder and it will explode.
