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How Do Air Guns Work?

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How Do Air Guns Work?

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C02 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5192646/283806_Full.jpg’); }); Powerlet C02 Cartridges One source of propellant for air guns are cartridges or bottles of carbon dioxide (CO2). As CO2 is almost always a gas at the the temperatures normally found on Earth, it is pressurized and mixed with oil so that it becomes a liquid for storage in containers suitable for use in air guns. When these containers a tapped, a valve releases a small amount of the liquid, which rapidly expands back into a gas. That expansion in the air gun’s chamber is what drives the projectile. Spring Pistons jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5192646/283814_Full.jpg’); }); A barrel-action spring-powered air gun. Some air guns use spring-powered pistons to compress regular air as a source of propellant. The cra