Preparation of Contact Explosives

Preparation of Contact Explosives

The contact explosives we will be describing use only a few chemicals. Some do need extra caution to keep from causing trouble.

Iodine Crystals

Though most people don't realize it, Iodine is not a brown liquid, but a steel-grey solid. The tincture of iodine you buy at the drugstore actually contains just a tiny bit of iodine dissolved in a jarful of inexpensive alcohol, and resold...

Potassium

by Aphotica

Ingredients Needed:

• White Ash From Wood (Potassium Carbonate)
• Metal Cup
• Two, Thick Wires (at least 5 inches)
• 9 volt Battery
• Heat Source (Bunsen Burner works best!)
• Torch
• Tongs
• Kerosene

Step One: Put your white.gray ash into metal cup. Torch for about 15 seconds straight, turning the ash to a white colour.

Step Two: Turn on your Bunsen burner to full and light. Grab the metal cup and hold directly...

Plastique Explosive from Aspirin

by lpumsunpiyush

This explosive is a phenol derivative. It is toxic and explosive compounds made from picric acid are poisonous if inhaled, ingested, or handled and absorbed through the skin. The toxicity of this explosive restricts it's use due to the fact that over exposure in most cases causes liver and kidney failure and sometimes death if immediate treatment is not obtained. That is why the picric acid may not be available...

Plastic Golf Ball Bomb

by John Sitters

MATERIALS

• Hot glue, or duck tape (preferably hot glue)
• Plastic Golf ball or ping pong ball
• A sharp object
• Matches
• Scissors

METHOD

1. Cut up enough match-heads to fill up the plastic golf ball or ping pong ball 3/4 of the way full.
2. Cut off the stuff you strike the matches with (do not cut it into pieces, keep it as a strip)
3. Stick both the matches and the striker into the golf

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Permanganate Explosive

by mett

you need:

potassium permanganate (found in fish stores, chemical shops online, chemists and even school)

cane sugar ( found in a supermarket)

engine coolant, the blue one (found in garage shops)

mix the potassium permanganate with the sugar with the ratio 50:50 (of hoe ever much you want). mix the mixture so it is evenly spread, then add about a quater less engine coolent...

Partial review of the KA-FUCKING-BOOM text files

by DavidThePyro

This file is a list of the names of articles in the Ka-Fucking-Boom section and my reviews of said articles. I am known as DavidThePyro. (At the time this file was typed up) I am a moderator at the Backyard Ballistics forum, part of the "community" on this site. (I have now resigned) So that means I know my stuff. Beside the name of the article is a + - or =. A + means the file is good,...

Oxygen Balance

Oxygen balance is an expression that is used to indicate the degree to which an explosive can be oxidized. If an explosive molecule contains just enough oxygen to convert all of its carbon to carbon dioxide, all of its hydrogen to water, and all of its metal to metal oxide with no excess, the molecule is said to have a zero oxygen balance. The molecule is said to have a positive oxygen balance if it contains more oxygen than is needed and a negative oxygen...

Oxy/acetylene Balloons

by nitrox

If you want a real bang - mix approximately equal mixtures of oxygen and acetylene into a balloon and tie the end off. Either use a petrol or gunpowder fuse, just make sure you have got enough time to get well back! For a bit of excitment, put two or three balloons under a drum, 44 gal (200L- Australia) and a chook or two, add a twenty foot petrol fuse, ignite, stand back, watch drum reach about 200' and see a very startled chook...

Oxidizers

by psycho_hoon

OXIDIZERS:

GROUP:

peroxide O2-2
nitrate NO3-
nitrite NO2-
perchlorate ClO4-
chlorate ClO3-
chlorite ClO2-
hypochlorite ClO-
permanganate MnO4-
persulfate S2O8-2
dichromate Cr2O7-2

If you are stupid, and/or don't know about these chemicals then give up pyrotechnics....

Nitric Acid Manufacture

by 6C

Nitric acid is used in the preparation of many explosives, inincendiary mixtures, and acid delay timers. It may be prepared by distilling a mixture of patasium nitrate and concentrated sulfuric acid.

Material Required

Sources

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