I post this before but they removed it, but wikipedia has it on their site just type in gunpower.
sulfur rubbed on plastic or glass can make a static spark when mixing it,
make sure you know what your doing BEFORE you attemt to make it yourself. it's safer just to buy it.
It is composed of charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur
Black powder. By the Chinese
Potassium nitrate, or saltpeter charcoal and sulfur
It is composed of charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur
sulfer charcoal saltpeter
Black powder is made up of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur in the ratio 75:15:10. These components are integrated finely into each other.
Black powder has just 3 components: potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur in the ratio 75:15:10. These are integrated finely into each other.
The Chinese invented black powder. A basic composition has about 75% of KNO3 , (potassium nitrate), about 10% S (sulfur), and about 15% charcoal. Al have to be pulverized separately.
=Black Powder:==75 parts Potassium Nitrate ( KNO3 or saltpeter/saltpetre, or nitre/niter). 10 parts Sulphur/sulphur (S) 15 parts Charcoal (C)==Generally, around the world in the 1800s, Black Powder came to be standardized at 15/2/3 or 15/3/2 of KNO/S/C, both to the same effect.=
By black powder do you mean gunpowder? It is made of; charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre( sometime called potassium nitrate)
Black powder absorbs moisture from the atmosphere
Manganese dioxide (MnO2) is a black powder.