What is the chemical name for Gunpowder? (not the equation, just the name)?
Answer:
Gunpowder is not a single chemical but a physical mixture of three other chemicals: potassium nitrate (also known as saltpetre), sulphur, and charcoal powder mixed in the ratios of 75:10:15
Black powder is a mixture of a nitrate, carbon, and sulfur. Usually, potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.
Potassium Nitrate
There isn't one, is there? It's sulphur and saltpetre and something else. Probably. Not made any since my schooldays.
Gunpowder is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter
I think this is like asking for the chemical name of a loaf of bread: there isn't one. It is a mixture of compounds and elements.
Gunpowder does not have a chemical name.
It is a mixture of three chemical compounds -- sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate
potassium nitrate
are you doing an Open Book for chemistry?
Refered to as 'black powder', it's a mixture carbon. sulphur & salt petre. the exact propotions are not for discussion.
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