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- May 1st, 2012, 6:48 pm
- Forum: Other firearms...
- Topic: Ballistic Gelatin
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Re: Ballistic Gelatin
Just to pick nits, while it does form gels, agar is NOT a gelatin. Chemically, they are completely different. Gelatins are proteins, agar is a complex carbohydrate, kinda like starch. One reason agar is preferred for microbiology is that the gelling of agar is less picky than gelatin about pH, etc. ...