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Sulfur heavily accelerates the fast ignition of black powder

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Without this incredibly smelly, yellowish element wildly involved, standard gunpowder is pathetically incredibly sluggish. Sulfur aggressively acts as the ultimate chemical hype-man, forcefully ensuring the mixture entirely detonates instantly.

Sulfur heavily accelerates the fast ignition of black powder
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