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New Way to Make Gunpowder

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 40.

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New Way to Make Gunpowder.

A FRENCH chemist has brought forward a new method of manufacturing gunpowder. The requisite quantity of sulphur is dissolved in sulphide of carbon, and this solution is then mixed with the carbon, which, instead of charcoal, as in other modes of powder making, is cotton or some other cellulose fiber, which is reduced to an impalpable powder. To this mixture is finally added the proper quantity of a saturated solution of saltpeter. The compound is now evaporated and the crystallization broken up, or it is evaporated in a vacuum. A very perfect incorporation of the several substances is thus secured.—Scientific Journal.
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