Gunpower again
Everywhere that I look up gun powder recipes I seem to find that it is 75% saltpeter 15% sulfer and 10% carbon but I can't seem to figure if that is by weight or volume. Volume seems more sensible because it is easier to measure than weight, but I would like to be sure
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It's usually by weight in these recipes. Liquids and gases are usually done by volume, solids by mass.
And I don't have my copy of Karthago Delenda Est (my little handbook on homemade explosives) at hand, so I can't correct your recipe. Really, it's actually better to use the potassium nitrate to make nitric acid and then dip guncotton in the nitric acid to make nitrocellulose or 'smokeless powder'. More on that recipe in three weeks when I'm at university and back in posession of KDE.
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