Comment on Future gun control has been shot downparentComments−xyzzyz5yManufacturing nitrocellulose, that is, smokeless powder, amounts to soaking cotton balls in concentrated nitric acid.−petre5yNot quite, you also need hydrochloric or sulphuric acid as a catalyst.
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Manufacturing nitrocellulose, that is, smokeless powder, amounts to soaking cotton balls in concentrated nitric acid.
Not quite, you also need hydrochloric or sulphuric acid as a catalyst.