Old school gunpowder is really called “black powder,” and it was so crucial to the Revolutionary War effort that we went to great (and gross) lengths to try and make it. This week on Reactions, find out what exactly those lengths were.
Sources:
- Chemistry of Pyrotechnics: Basic Principles and Theory
- How Gunpowder Changed the World
- The chemistry behind a firework explosion
- Chemist explains the science behind fireworks
- The Chemistry of Gunpowder
- How Fireworks Became a Fourth of July Tradition
- Black and Smokeless Powders
- The Gunpowder Shortage
- China's Age of Invention
- The Raid on Bermuda That Saved the American Revolution
- From Gunpowder to Teeth Whitener: The Science Behind Historic Uses of Urine
- Why does gunpowder explode when lit?
- Remember, remember the 5th of November; gunpowder, particles and smog
- Black powder
- What is Gunpowder?
- Gun Cotton and Collodion
- A Short History Of Nitroglycerine And Nitric Oxide In Pharmacology And Physiology
- Alfred Nobel’s dynamite companies
- THEORY OF EXPLOSIVES
- NCJRS Abstract
- Instructions for the Manufacture of Saltpetre
- Black Powder
- Nitrate Reduction to Nitrite, Nitric Oxide and Ammonia by Gut Bacteria under Physiological Conditions
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