Homemade Black Powder! (Gunpowder!) How To Make Gunpowder, DIY Fast Burning Gunpowder Experiment
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2022
- In this video, I will show you the 3 ingredients in gunpowder (black powder) and how simple this ancient propellant is to make, 75% potassium nitrate, 15% willow charcoal, and 10% sulfur. Happy New year's and stay safe!
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How to make potassium nitrate😂
I recently got a ball mill as an upgrade to my mortar and pestle, and it makes 10x better gunpowder; but there's still something about the primitive mortar and pestle that makes it fun. Great vid!
Thanks! 😃 yeah I noticed most other CZcamsrs only show using a ball mill so that made me want to make a video for making gunpowder the primitive way.
I’m very impressed I could hook up anything that’s electrical but my chemistry skills stink .
this could be the only vid i saw using a mortar to mix it rather than those ball mill i dont even know where to buy one thanks!!! 🎉
Your welcome, I felt the same way back when I learned, so this is my method I came up with because I didn't want to get a ball mill, we know the ancient Chinese invented black powder and they had to use mortar and pestles back then.
i didnt know this was an ancient chinese style 🤔
@cap-uysilverio1867 yeah, if I'm not mistaken, the ancient Chinese invented fireworks and modern day warfare because of their invention of black powder.
I have watched a couple of videos of how to make black powder and most of them heated potassium nitrate in the oven to make it dry.
Is that really necessary?Because you haven’t done that and your powder burns just like theirs does.
Btw great video!
Thanks🙂, I'm happy you enjoyed the video and I appreciate your positive feedback, I I didn't heat the potassium nitrate, however the potassium nitrate I used I just bought at the time so their may be less moisture in the potassium nitrate, but I have seen some of those videos you are talking about, something that those channels were doing is making rocket candy mixing sugar and potassium nitrate, sugar is FAR MORE hydroscopic than potassium nitrate. But it's not necessary to dry out potassium nitrate when combined with charcoal and sulfur for black powder, it can still help to heat dry the potassium nitrate kno2 if it was in a very humid place for an extended period of time.
Could a bag of 100% hardwood lump charcoal (Oak and Hickory) be used?
I've tried it, it will burn but the burn rate is too slow, soft woods are what you want like the wood I used was weeping willow which grows faster and leaves a porous surface area that the potassium nitrate and sulfur can get inside to mix better with the charcoal, I've seen people grind hardwood charcoal in a ball mill for 12 hours or longer to get it to burn faster. But I haven't tried a ball mill to be honest. Due to living in a small space with very small backyard, I personally don't feel safe to leave a ball mill unattended.
I literaly dont know where to get pure sulfur, and also does regular coal from burned wood work?
Try looking for sulfur in the garden center at Walmart or a nursery or landscape supply center, the bag of sulfur they sell is usually for lowering the pH of the soil, and as for the charcoal, yes you can use charcoal from burning your own wood, that's actually the ideal way to get your charcoal, preferably from a soft wood like from a weeping willow tree is... Perfect... (don't) use hardwood charcoal because the wood is too dense and doesn't allow the potassium nitrate and sulfur to get into the dense wood fiber. Soft wood is more porous to allow the potassium nitrate and sulfur to mix into the charcoal. Willow charcoal and pine charcoal are usually your best option for charcoal, I have seen cedar pet bedding wood chips used for small pets used. Just place the wood (with the bark peeled off) into an empty paint can that you can buy at Lowe's or home Depot and punch a 2 to 3 holes in the lid to allow the wood gas to escape, place the paint can in a camp fire building up firewood around the paint can and you will see a flame 🔥 come out of the punched holes in the lid, that is the wood gas escaping which is what you want, wait until you no longer see any flames come out of the holes in the lid then remove the paint can from the fire and put a damp rag over the lid to prevent the charcoal inside from completely oxidizing and turning to ash, (you want it to completely cool before opening the lid or the residual heat can catch the charcoal in fire and burn up your charcoal. Once it's cooled down you can remove the lid and remove the cooled charcoal and then grind it up into powder.
My black.powder showing just lillle sparks with little sound of burning. But not full burning lik bp.
What's the matter ? Im.starting to doubt if what i have is clean potasium nitrate or mixed with domthings else im from morocco and i only ordered white powder they they use in gardening and planting. If you know what im saying
Make sure whatever you order is 100% potassium nitrate in the ingredients, the spectracide stump remover I bought from Lowes is 100% potassium nitrate, I'm not sure what the online ordering restrictions are for Morocco but try ordering that online.
@@techieunusual2368 not really online are so strict when it comes to this and we dont have walmart or amazon here were I live.
Its just gradening bags .
I will ask for a combination they sell it's 13 0 46
It's 46% potasuim
13% nitrogine
Hope this one works
@YoshiToshiSamYou Best of luck to you, sometimes fertilizer is the only way to go to get the potassium nitrate and the sulfur, I actually got my sulfur from fertilizer high in sulfur for acid loving plants, and I literally took the time to tediously pick out all of the sulfur chips with tweezers for this mixture in the video. I didn't show the part of myself picking out the sulfur from fertilizer. But you can see the results work really well!
Can a fertilizer can ba used a pottasium nitrate
I used acid loving plant fertilizer to get my sulfur, I literally used tweezers to tediously pick out all the sulfur chips from the fertilizer leaving the rest of the fertilizer behind. I'll give you a tip on what the sulfur chips look like, The sulfur chips are very bright almost white ish yellow color and round in shape about 1 to 2 millimeters in diameter, one side of the sulfur chips are concave and the other side is convex. Kind of the way a (nilla wafer) cookie looks but very very small.
Thanks, I was just searching if you can use mortar and pestle to grind it into fine power.
Yeah I wanted to show this simplified method because I thought there were too many steps involved with using a ball mill that you see in most black powder making videos on CZcams, this is a more primitive way.
I would suggest grinding everything separate then adding the ingredients together, not hate or anything it's just that you never know.
Thanks, the only thing with separating the ingredients is the molecules in the ingredients won't be mixed quite as well and won't burn quite as quickly but you have a good point to play it safer, working with pyrotechnics is always dangerous and should be done under supervision and at someone's own risk. This videos soul purpose was to show the simplest most primitive way to make black powder and its important to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) like Goggles, face shield, gloves, apron that is fire retardant ect.
@@techieunusual2368 you are right about the mixing, but I found out that taping two cups together and shaking them works fine
You stand more chance of losing a limb this way so don't do it
Can i use fertiliser that has sulfur in it to make the blackpowder
Wouldn't you like to know that I actually did JUST THAT! LOL I have a bag of acid loving plant fertilizer that had sulfur chips in it, the sulfur chips are light yellow round and about 1 to 3 millimeters in diameter, I used a tweezer to literally pick out all the sulfur chips from the fertilizer until I had enough sulfur to weigh out the sulfur in grams to make the black powder. But you can't use the rest of the fertilizer ingredients.
How do you measure the 3 of the ingredients before mixing together
I use a digital kitchen scale to measure the ingredients in grams. The measurements are in the video. 🙂
Can you buy black powder any where or do you have to make it
Yes, you can buy black powder at any gun store or sporting goods store, I know that Walmart sells it, but this video is just for knowledge and experimental and just for the fun of making it is a head rush in its own. 😎
I just want to explode stuff thank you
Where can I get fuse from
@celestinobianchi3374 If you're asking about a store, honestly I'm not sure but I know they sell them online. I've never bought anything pyrotechnic related from a store other than the ingredients for making them. Haha
@@techieunusual2368 ok man appreciate the help 😀
Hi fra with this kind of powder you can make firecrackers Or you can't
Yep! that tiny firecracker was a demonstration with using a pinch full of this powder.
It is important to put the right percentages
Yeah I guessed on the firecracker in the video, it was too small to measure in grams because the diameter was 1/4" x 1" tall and I filled it half way, so I used volume, if I did anything bigger I would measure in grams.
@@techieunusual2368Ok, so if I mix potassium, sulfur, coal driven out, I will also be able to make very strong firecrackers and sure that it works
I also made fairly fast burning gunpowder without a ball mill, but I didn't even have sulfur because that's illegal where I live.
czcams.com/video/iGqLMgu_CmE/video.html
here's a video of how it's made, testing at 2:18, do you think it would burn faster with sulfur?
I've tried using just charcoal and potassium nitrate without the sulfur, it takes forever to light and doesn't burn evenly and will go out on its own without burning up the rest of the black powder when I tested it, I'm surprised sulfur is illegal in your area, I would think if anything it would be the potassium nitrate as it is the largest ingredient in black powder and oxidizer, sulfur is usually sold in powder form at nurseries that sell plants because sulfur is used for acidifying garden soil and is used in fertilizer, that being said you wouldn't believe how I got my sulfur, I took the time to pick out all the sulfur wafers in a big bag of azalea/hydrangea acid loving plant fertilizer, it is high in sulfur, the wafers are tiny yellow round disks, it took me hours/days to pick out all the sulfur wafers but it was therapeutic. Lol I then grinded them in my mortar and pestle separately. That is also another reason why I used a mortar and pestle because when the potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur were mixed I could see the little tiny chunks of sulfur were not completely ground up and grinding the black powder in a mortar and pestle allows me to see those sulfur chunks disappear and the powder goes from a black color to a grey color when I know it is finely ground up.
@@techieunusual2368 Yes, potassium nitrate is also illegal here, but I had like 20 year old potassium nitrate (bought back when it was legal) which I crystallized and dried, and it works as if it's new. I also can make potassium nitrate from NPK fertilizers, which include some nitrogen and potassium, but is clearly not pure potassium nitrate, because it contains phosphorus, dyes and some metals. I mix that with water and spread a thin layer of it on cardboard and let it dry, once it's dry, it has turned to potassium nitrate, which I later purify for a better burn. It has worked with all NPK fertilizers so far, and I really don't know the chemistry behind that.
Sulfur however I can find that in fertilizers too, but it's not in yellow bits ever. It's always some fine powder with other stuff. Its hard to get sulfur from that because it's only 5% sulfur and has tons of other things that are also insoluble in water. Maybe I can try it one day, but that sulfur would be really expensive.
I am pretty satisfied with my sulfur-free black powder though, burns very fast considering how it's made. Firecrackers made with it make a bang as loud as commercial firecrackers made with sulfur, kno3 and charcoal, probably because their black powder burns pretty slow.
Btw your sulfur-free black powder burned slowly most likely because of the ratio. When you have no sulfur the ratio should be 70% KNO3 30% Carbon. It's much harder to light on fire also, because sulfur has such a low combustion point.
@@techieunusual2368 yes, urea has the nitrogen and dirt which they put urine over has the potassium. That process takes a year to get a good amount of potassium nitrate, but I just had to let my fertilizer dry. The fertilizer I used probably contains lots of nitrates already, but the drying process washes out everything unnecessary.
When you try the sulfur-free black powder again, let me know if you see any changes!
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