How a gun silencer work?

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How a gun silencer work?

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Sound is a pressure wave in gas, the higher the pressure and more energy it has the louder it sounds.

A silencer, more accurately a suppressor, channels the expanding gases from a fired cartridge through a series of traps that slow the gas and make it lose energy, pressure and so volume before it finally escapes.

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