A musket is smooth bored, like a shotgun's bore. A rifle has rifling inside the bore (grooves).
the musket does not have a rifled barrel and a rifle does
A pistol would generally be considered a weapon with a relatively short barrel length like a handgun, whereas a musket would be a long barreled weapon more like a rifle.
Carbine, rifle, firearm, or gun. Those are synonyms for musket.
musket Or miguelet / miquelet.
It replaced the smoothbore musket.
Nothing different from a rifle.
The mechanics of igniting the primary charge
The rifles had superior range and accuracy compared to the smoothbore musket.
Rifle.
bayonet
not sure if this is what you are looking for but a musket is usually smooth bored meaning it has no rifling in the barrel where a muzzle loader can have rifling. A muzzle loader refers to any weapon that is loaded thru the muzzle in a simple definition and it can be either smooth bored like a musket or rifled like a Pennsylvania long rifle or like most modern muzzle loaders are today
There is no difference between an AR rifle and an AR rifle