2006-10-07 01:47:25 · 7 answers · asked by jamduf 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
z Gun powder is a self contained explosive.
Sulfur, coal, and potassium nitrate are the ingredients.
2006-10-07 02:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by Skeeter63 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes . a gun will fire very well outside our atmospher an the bullet will never come to a stop. so the gun will be something very special in this respect as anything fired in our atmospher will fall to the gound due to gravity , the buullet fired in spac ewill go round and round the earth if it is within its field of gravity though weak. if it is out of the gravitational field , it will go straight in ot space for ever.till it comes into the gravittional field of some other mass in the space and falls into it .
The reason is that the the mixure potasium nitrate , sulphur and carbon ,in the gun powder has enough oxygen to explode the gun powder and relaese the gasses with enough force to throw the buullet in to the sopace asm mucas it does in the atmospher on eath . Once the bullet is pout of the barrel ,it has no air to resist its movement and so it willm ove faster than it did on the earth and earth's grvity being abscent ther ein space , the bullet eill go and go non-stop till it hits something else in the vast space .Nothing needs any air or atmosphere in the sopace to move unstopped . Things once pushed will move without any futhere motive force or fuel , like an eternal machine . an eternal machine is easy to make in space .
we should shift all our manufacturing processes to the space . It might be possible for us perhaps our machines without much use of power!.
2006-10-07 14:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Infinity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will fire in a vacume since the bullet is sealed and there is trapped air in the casing. The force of explosion may not be as great though.
Also, guns have been proven to ignite under water. same no air priciple.
2006-10-07 10:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by Alan T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the gun will fire. The chemicals in the bullet propellant produce their own oxygen for combustion, it doesn't use the surrounding air. Similarly a gun will fire underwater.
2006-10-07 08:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by amania_r 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-10-07 08:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sulfur, coal and potassium nitrate? Somebody's been watching too much Star Trek.
2006-10-07 19:26:07 · answer #6 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nitrate gives the gunpowder its needed component to explode not air.
2006-10-07 08:54:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋