Gunpowder problems!

[Jackeh]

smokeless powders were introduced in about the 1880\'s, cant remember exactly what they were made of, but its something like wood, nitric acid and alcohol. The main diferences between it and black powder is firstly smokeless powder in its early firm was actualy a solid explosive, and smokeless powder doesnt actualy \'explode\' like black powder does, it just burns rapidly which gives off alot of expanded gas in a short period of time. It didnt give the same range as black powder but when you can see the enemy and theyre all blinded by smoke, who cares.

(thank you history channel)

composite-4 (C4) is basicaly a plastic which is mixed with chemical explosives, RDX is most common, i forget what it stands for though. It takes quite an effort to explode some early C4, you could shoot at it, throw it into a fire, jump on it.. and it wont go off, it needs a seperate detonator charge, which is basicaly an explosive itself to set of the chemicals. apart from that all i can remember is it was first made towards the end of WW2.

Nitroglycerine and TNT i dont remember much about im afraid