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Speaker 1: Hi Am Marshall Brain with today's question, how does a
Speaker 1: gun silencer work? It's amazing that anything is able to
Speaker 1: silence a gun, but gun silencers actually work on a
Speaker 1: very simple principle. Imagine a balloon. If you pop a
Speaker 1: balloon with a pin, it will make a loud noise.
Speaker 1: But if you were to untie the end of the balloon,
Speaker 1: I'll let the air out slowly, it makes very little noise.
Speaker 1: This is the basic idea behind a gun silencer. To
Speaker 1: fire a bullet from a gun, gun powder is ignited
Speaker 1: behind the bullet. The gun powder creates a high pressure
Speaker 1: pulse of hot gas. The pressure of the gas forces
Speaker 1: the bullet down the barrel of the gun. When the
Speaker 1: bullet exits the end of the barrel, it is like
Speaker 1: uncorking a bottle. The pressure behind the bullet is immense, however,
Speaker 1: on the order of three thousand pounds per square inch,
Speaker 1: so the pop that a gun makes as it's uncorked
Speaker 1: is extremely loud. A silencer screws onto the end of
Speaker 1: the barrel and has a huge volume compared to the barrel,
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty times greater. With the silencer in place,
Speaker 1: the pressure rise gas behind the bullet has a big
Speaker 1: space to expand into, so the pressure of the hot
Speaker 1: gas falls significantly. When the bullet finally exits through the
Speaker 1: hole in the silencer. The pressure being uncorked is much
Speaker 1: much lower, perhaps sixty p s I. Therefore, the sound
Speaker 1: of the gun firing is much softer. For moral this
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