Comments by "Kevin Skinner" (@kevinskinner4986) on "Astronaut Chris Hadfield Breaks Down Space Movies | Vanity Fair" video.

  1. Oxygen isn't the only chemical that allows things to burn. I don't know about modern gunpowder, but black powder you use in a musket contains a chemical called saltpeter aka potassium nitrate. This is people use fertilizers to make bombs, by the way. Both potassium and ammonium nitrate are oxidizers and let your stuff burn without oxygen.
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