However, it is also very dirty. Modern ammunition is fueled by smokeless gunpowder, which burns much cleaner. It varies in granule shape and size too, but it’s made from nitrocellulose and ...

But you can always reload great grandpa’s musket with some homemade gunpowder. All kidding aside, the invention and proliferation of gunpowder had a profound effect on the world. Here you can ...

Owing to its purpose, the Ordinance Department named the burgeoning city Nitro after the chemical Nitro-Cellulose, a component in the smokeless gunpowder it produced. Redwop, a reverse spelling of ...

Less fun is doing the obligatory load of laundry to rid your clothes of the smoky smell. Enter smokeless firepits. These engineering marvels have been widely available for about a decade ...

I’m the editor of Wirecutter’s outdoors section, and a couple of years later, with the pandemic lingering on and on, I assigned senior staff writer Kit Dillon to look into smokeless fire pits.