Timeline for How to justify a scarcity of sulfur minerals, and the impact this might have on a fantasy world
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| Mar 17, 2018 at 2:07 | vote | accept | Jack Maggs | ||
| Mar 14, 2018 at 20:03 | history | edited | Unassuming Guy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | Unassuming Guy | It can be processed in ways that make it harder to distinguish. Modern gunpowder can't be separated out because it comes it pellets or flakes, and grinding gunpowder isn't a good idea. But a better idea might be to use a solid propellant and make caseless cartridges that are hard to reverse engineer. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 20:13 | comment | added | Ummdustry | good idea though its worth noting that gun powder is essantially a mixture of powders, that can be seperated as easily as repetitive shaking or dropping in the wind into clearly recognisable components. if given gunpowder it would be fairly easy to reverse engineer, so perhaps this Cartel instead invents a comparable but harder to reverse engineer explosive like nitroglycerine or TNT and gunpowder is never invented? | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 21:52 | history | answered | Unassuming Guy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |