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How to Make Nitroglycerin
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By: Karl Marx
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CH2ONO2
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! 3/2 N2 + 3 CO2
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CHONO2 ----------> +
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! Ignition 5/2 H2O + 1/4 O2
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CH2ONO2
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(How Nitro explodes--note that the byproducts are nothing but
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nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water and oxygen)
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Nitroglycerin [heretofore nitro] is a very powerful high explosive. I am not
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sure who invented it but he probably didn't -- the first person to make it
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probably blew himself up and his freind got the info off his notes. Well
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anyway, the next best thing to nitro is TNT which is ten times harder to make
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but also ten times safer to make. If you can't use common sense then don't
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even TRY to make this stuff--a few drops can be lethal under certain
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circumstances.
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To Make Nitro:
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== ==== ======
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Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid (for best results it should have a specific
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gravity of 50 degrees Baume') with 200 parts sulphuric acid. This is going to
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be HOT at first--it won't splatter if you pour the nitric INTO the sulphuric
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but don't try it the other way around. The acid solutions together can disolve
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flesh in a matter of seconds so take the proper measures for God's sake!!!
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When cool, add 38 parts glycerine as slowly as possible. Let it trickle down
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the sides of the container into the acids or it won't mix thoroughly and the
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reaction could go to fast--which causes enough heat to ignite the stuff. Stir
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with a **GLASS** rod for 15 seconds or so then CARFULLY pour it into 20 times
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it's *VOLUME* of water. It will visibly precipitate immediatly. There will be
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twice as much nitro as you used glycerin and it is easy to separate. Mix it
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with baking soda as soon as you have separated it--this helps it not to go
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off spontaneously.
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NOTES: Parts are by weight and the Baume' scale of spicific gravity can be
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found in most chem. books. You can get fuming nitric and sulfuric
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acids wherever good chemicals or fertilizers are sold. It is
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positivly *STUPID* to make more than 200 grams of Nitro at a time.
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When mixing the stuff wear goggles, gloves, etc. When I first made
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the stuff I had the honor of having it go off by itself (I added too
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much glycerine at a time.) I was across the room at the time, but I
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felt the impact--so did the table it was on as well as the window it
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was next to--they were both smashed by only 25 grams in an open
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bowl. Oh, yes, glycerine you can get at any pharmacy and you need an
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adult signature for the acids. Any bum can make Nitro go off if
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you don't add the bicarbonate of (baking) soda--but even with that,
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if it gets old I wouldn't play catch with it.
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Once you have made the nitro and saturated it with bicarb, you can make a
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really powerful explosive that won't go off by itself by simply mixing it with
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as much cotton as you can and then saturating that with molten (parafin--just
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enough to make it sealed and hard. Typically, use the same amounts (by weight)
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of nitro, cotton and parafin. This, when wrapped in newspaper, was once
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known as "Norbin & Ohlsson's Patent Dynamite," but that was back in 1896.
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