That's why you can buy a hundred-pound sack for about three dollars in most places.
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Then it is pumped into big ships that haul it to industries all over the world. The sulfur melts and, being lighter than water, is easily pumped out at another point close by. "Today, in certain places around the world, sulfur is recovered from un- derground deposits by pumping live steam underground through pipes. "It can also be found in pure deposits around volcanoes, and in early times, because it was found where molten lava issued from the earth, the sulfur condensed around the rims of the volcanoes was called brimstone." "Flowers of sulfur is ideal for gun powder, and it can be bought in most drug stores in four-ounce bottles or pound cans." The urine, substituted for water, gives the powder more oxygen and higher performance." Usually when I mix the ingredients, I add just enough stale urine to make the batch bunch about like biscuit dough. "Then the ingredients can be mixed with a small amount of water so the mixture comes out with biscuit-dough consistency. Never mix all three ingredients before grinding unless you want to turn your mill into a deadly grenade, or your mortar into a cannon that can blow off your fingers or even your hand." This can be accomplished with either a mortar and pestle, or with a hand-cranked flour mill. All ingredients must be fine ground separately. "By weight measure, black powder is made of seventy-five parts saltpeter finely ground, fifteen parts charcoal, and ten parts sulfur. Making your own black powder, however, is not unlawful as yet, as far as I know."
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"Out on the West Coast, as in some southern states, the trend by the government is to prevent its sale with mountains of red tape. It is a long and tiresome task if you make more than ten pounds at a time. "Black powder is and isn't hard to make depending on which end you look at it from. From The Foxfire Book, Volume 5 - © 1979 The Foxfire Fund Published by Doubleday Books