PROCESS OF CORNING BLACK POWDER

'Corning' is the process by which meal powder, or finely divided black powder, is compressed into cakes, crushed, and then screened by particle size into different size categories.[1] This process alters the burn rate of black powder, giving it more flexibility for different applications. The main advantage of corning is that it prevents separation of the gunpowder into its constitutive components, which made the gunpowder unreliable.