Burn Rate Charts ###### [Wolfe Publishing](https://loaddata.com/Article/BurnRateCharts/Powder-Burn-Rate-Chart-NEW/159) ###### [EGP World](https://egpworld.com/RELOADING/POWDERS/1/BURN_RATES.htm) You know - I made this ["cool video" about burn rates](https://rumble.com/vr2c62-december-19-2021.html) with the assistance of Adrian Jackson but it was all for naught. ### Hear Marshall out! ## When gunpowder is ground down to small specs - IT ALL BURNS about the same. #### The rule of thumb for gunpowders is: ## SMALL NC IS SMALL NC: The nitrocellulose from one powder is NO DIFFERENT than the nitrocellulose from a second powder - Period. The nitrocellulose is the primary ingredient that comprises the vast majority (if not all) gunpowders. This is especially true with most pistol powders (known as single-based powders). Generally speaking (but not all) double-based powders are usually rifle powders. They are known as double-based because these powders have special shapes and ingredients/coatings etc that cause these powders to burn at a slower rate. **This is by design**. Because rifle barrels are longer than pistol barrels - the overall design of rifle powders will burn slightly longer (slower) than pistol powders. One ingredient found to retard or deter the burn rate in some (but not all) rifle powders is some form of "centralite". [[The Perfect Smokeless Gunpowder]]