{"id":243,"date":"2007-02-01T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T08:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=243"},"modified":"2007-02-01T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T08:51:35","slug":"effect-of-differing-charcoal-types-upon-handmade-lift-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Effect of Differing Charcoal Types Upon Handmade Lift Powder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"TimesNewRoman\"> <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Charles Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/font> <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ABSTRACT:<\/strong> Experimental production of charcoal via the retort method is discussed. Charcoals were made from various substances; of special interest were woods belonging to the Salicaceae (willow) family. Lift powders were made using these charcoals and their performance compared using a device for testing powders under conditions similar to those used for propelling fireworks aerial shells. The author found that handmade powders often outperformed commercially available powders in this application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Black Powder, charcoal type, performance testin<font face=\"TimesNewRoman\">g<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Ref:<\/strong> JPyro, Issue 10, 1999, pp49-55<br \/> (J10_49)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Wilson ABSTRACT: Experimental production of charcoal via the retort method is discussed. Charcoals were made from various substances; of special interest were woods belonging to the Salicaceae (willow) family. Lift powders were made using these charcoals and their performance compared using a device for testing powders under conditions similar to those used for propelling &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=243\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Effect of Differing Charcoal Types Upon Handmade Lift Powder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}