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In north Ethiopia we extract the crude potassium nitrate from deep caves and we add sulfur and carbon(charcoal). No need to boil. Mixture of these three fined elements just make gunpowder. At the end spot of the bullet we put head of a match, fill it with the gunpowder and finally put the tip of the bullet that already was used(fired). Caution needed in every step. I have checked from simple gun to big mortar bullet.
@@tingzky they stay inside a cave mostly under the inner roof where the rain doesnot reach because it is soluble.they look like dried white salt and strong salty taste( i dont know how yo express). Take them and dissolve in water. Let dry the pure dissolved water eeither by sun or heat. Then pure white salt of potassium nitrate remains. These different nitrates(Na, Al, K, etc) have different applications. The one commonly found in sides of a river clay, that cows like it, and doesnot allow plants to grow is mostly aluminium nitrate, i think. I am not a chemist but i remember our highschool teacher told us that. Traditionally nitric acid was also prepared using these types of salts. I am talking about my experience of early 1980's. Long time
@@ddyy5110 Yes, I got you. We extract the same. That mouldy substance developed from a place that kept away from water for almost a century or more. We take it along with soil and extract the solution and heat the solution to get water evaporated. Thank for sharing 😃
@@tingzky where are you from? By the way i didnot tried it directly but my partner was also extracting the sulfur from ball like black volcanic stones traditionally. So the potassium nitrate, sulfur and carbon are made local. The charcoal used also are not all trees but small bushes that their leaves are salty taste. We call it locally "salt of the camel"i
В далёком детстве один раз сделали. Уголь нажгли,селитра в магазине, сера на железной дороге. Горел. Больше не делали. После войны и так всего хватало.
Be very careful here- you just might blow yourself up in the process. In the 19th century and earlier, this was a common occurrence. Gunpowder mills were built with 3 heavy duty walls (usually made from stone) and a flimsy wooden one. When explosions occurred, it would “blow out” the wooden wall but leave the other 3 intact- the wooden wall would be rebuilt, and business would continue as usual.
In the earlier 80's For the science fare I made Black Powder. They wouldn't allow it in the library for the science fare. It was raining outdoors and and I had to do it out doors. Was so cool they took a photo of me and behind me was the fuel truck gassing up the busses when it flashed off. They claim the photo was over exposed and didn't develop. I think they saw their safety failure and it burned uo too. Hahaha
I believe this are the konyak nagas.... The British we surprise when they were greeted with muskets in the early 90s trying to conquer the konyaks... Hence they introduced opioid and the effects are still felt today.
@@ramanchandran6685 Yes, there are several methods of preparing. From chicken dropping, mouldy soils and (which have been kept in dry conditions for centuries).
Well for one charcoal and St Peter does not make gunpowder you also need some sulfur in there is a stabilizer and his measurements are way the hell off it is 75 saltpeter 15% charcoal and 10% sulfur that is the standard mix for black powder to this day
