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.
musket Or miguelet / miquelet.
Carbine, rifle, firearm, or gun. Those are synonyms for musket.
It replaced the smoothbore musket.
Nothing different from a rifle.
The rifles had superior range and accuracy compared to the smoothbore musket.
The mechanics of igniting the primary charge
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
bayonet
Rifle.
There is no difference between an AR rifle and an AR rifle