7128051 Black powder is pretty easy to make, but is slow and dirty. Cordite isn't exactly difficult to manufacture, although it is tougher than black powder, it just requires more chemistry and safety precautions. Cordite delivers higher velocities, and burns cleaner. A bit of history here: the 8mm Lebel rifle was the first military rifle to use "smokeless" powder and blew everything else out of the water in terms of effectiveness, as it was introduced at the end of black powder, where things like .45-70 were being adopted to eke out the last bits of black powder performance. If he can get his hands on nitrocellulose, he can make smokeless powder in all likelihood, although picric acid would work as well, it's not preferable.
>black powder
>not cordite
>ishygddt
Celestia, trust the human.
7126529 What?
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Black powder is pretty easy to make, but is slow and dirty. Cordite isn't exactly difficult to manufacture, although it is tougher than black powder, it just requires more chemistry and safety precautions. Cordite delivers higher velocities, and burns cleaner. A bit of history here: the 8mm Lebel rifle was the first military rifle to use "smokeless" powder and blew everything else out of the water in terms of effectiveness, as it was introduced at the end of black powder, where things like .45-70 were being adopted to eke out the last bits of black powder performance. If he can get his hands on nitrocellulose, he can make smokeless powder in all likelihood, although picric acid would work as well, it's not preferable.
7128778 Seems like Toland might need to look into some chemistry...
7128778 i was talking about the bottom line but thank you for clearing that up
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it means I seriously hope you guys don't do that
why, it is the princess of the damn suns fault she did not just fucking talk it out damnit