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C-1 Plastic Explosive
Listen up, this shit is powerful, dangerous, and highly illegal. If you don't have any sort of background in chemistry, you'll probably kill yourself. To detonate it, you need an explosion, such as the one produced by mercury fulminate. For now just remember, if you can't understand any part of this, then DON'T FUCK WITH IT!!
Preliminaries:
Let's cut through the shit and get down to what you really want to know.
1. C-1 is 150% more powerfull than T.N.T.
2. It's 10% more powerfull than C-4
3. It expands at a rate of 8850 meters per second when compressed into a cube with a density of 1.55 g/cubic cm.
Materials
Chemicals:
Hexamine (compressed fuel tablets found in sporting goods stores)
50 grams
Concentrated Nitric Acid
550 mls
Distilled Water
Table Salt
Ice
Ammonium Nitrate(optional)
Equipment:
500 ml beaker
glass stirring rod
funnel and filter paper
ice bath container
centigrade thermometer
blue litmus paper
PROCEDURE
1) Place the beaker in the ice bath, and carefully pour 550 mls of concentrated nitric acid into the beaker.
2) When the acid has cooled to below 20 degrees centigrade, carefully begin adding small amounts of the crushed fuel tablets, that you previously ground into a fine powder. The temp will rise, and must be kept below 30 degrees centigrade, or you'll blow your fucking head off!! Stir.
3) Drop the temp to below zero, either by adding salt to the old ice bath, or by creating a new one, or by adding ammonium nitrate to the old ice bath. Continue stirring for at least 20 minutes, while keeping the temp below zero.
4) Pour the mixture into a litre of crushed ice. Shake, stir, and allow to melt. Once melted, filter out the crystals and dispose of the corrosive liquid( say in some poor cat's water dish)
5) Place the crystals into 1/2 a litre of boiling water, filter out the crystals, and test them for acidity with the litmus paper. Repeat step 5 until the litmus paper doesn't change color anymore, meaning you have boiled off all of the excess acid.
6) To make the plasticizer, mix by weight:
88.8% R.D.X.( the crystals)
11.4% mineral oil
0.6% lecithin
I've also heard that vaseline and wax in a 5 to 1 ratio work well.