Black Powder Manufacturing, Testing & Optimizing - by Ian von Maltitz. Examines black powder making from simple mixed ingredients to complicated, professional-type production. Describes all ingredients and processes. From chemistry to physics, from mechanical to mystical, including analyzing ingredients, examining techniques and processes, from cheap to the best. Full size, 208 pages, 16 chapters, index, 3 appendices, 59 illustrations, 17 tables.