No
The speed of a gunpowder explosion would depend on the concentration of the reacting ingredients so there is no specific speed for gunpowder.-Tyler
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Roger Bacon is often considered the first European to describe a mixture containing the essential ingredients of gunpowder.
The knowledge of how to make gunpowder was first developed by the Chinese. IT is not difficult to make, the ingredients are sulfur, carbon and saltpeter. Given the ingredients (and the precise recipe) one could make it in a kitchen sink.
String tripwire cord and Gunpowder!
Why do you want to know?Use the correct ingredients in the correct ratios
Gunpowder is used to create TNT and Fire Charges. Gunpowder is essential in order to create splash potions, and is one of ingredients to make the firework rocket and Firework Stars.
Guns themselves don't contain any gunpowder, although, in muzzle loading firearms, the powder is loaded into the barrel, at which point, it could be said the gun does contain gunpowder. In firearms which use cartridges, it is the cartridge which contains the gunpowder.
Sulfur is in gunpowder, so yes.
Most gunpowders consist of three ingredients of potassium nitrate, sulfur and carbon. Different makers may have more or less of the basic ingredients.
Those are the basic ingredients of gunpowder.