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How to make Nitroglycerin and How to use it.
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Nitro is a very powerful high explosive. The byproducts of nitro is nothing but
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nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water, and oxygen.
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To make nitro.
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Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid, with specific gravity of 50 degrees
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baume, with 200 parts sulphuric acid. This is going to be hot at first. It
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won't splatter if you pour the nitric into the sulphuric. The acid solutions
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together can dissolve flesh in a matter of seconds so take care when using
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them!! When cool, add 38 parts glycerine as slowly as possible. Let it trickle
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down the sides of the container into the acids or it won't mix thoroughly and
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the reaction could go to fast which causes enough heat to ignite itself. If you
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see the mixture turn brown or look funny, run like hell!! This means it is
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about to explode! (Nitroglycerin can fill up to 10,000 times it's original area
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with expanding gases. This means that if you have 10ml's somewherel it will
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produce 100,000ml of gases). Stir with a GLASS rod for 15 seconds then
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carefully pour it into 20 times it's volume of water. It will visibly
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precipitate immediately. There will be twice as much nitro as you used glycerine
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and it is easy to separate. Mix it with baking soda as soon as you have
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separated it this helps it not to go off by itself.
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NOTES: Parts are by weight and the baume scale of specific gravity can be found
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in most chemistry books. You can get fuming nitric and sulfuric acids wherever
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good chemicals or fertilizers are sold. It is positively STUPID to make more
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than 200 grams of nitro at time. When mixing the stuff wear goggles, gloves,
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etc. One experience of having the stuff going off by itself blew both a window
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and the table it was sitting on away. This was done with only 25g of the stuff.
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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
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fieasy uch cotton as you can and them saturating that with molten wax...just enough
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to make it sealed and hard. Typically, use the same amounts ( by weight ) of
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each nitro, cotton and wax. This when wrapped in newspaper was once known as "
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Norbin & Olson's patent dynamite " but that was back in 1896.
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How to make TNT
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1. Get two clean beakers. In the first, prepare a solution of 76% sulfuric
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acid, 23% nitric acid and 1% water. In the other beaker prepare another
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solution of 57% nitric acid and 43% sulfuric acid. Percentages are on a weight
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ratio, not by volume.
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2. Ten grams of the first solution are poured into an empty beaker and placed
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in an ice bath.
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3. Add ten grams of toluene, and stir for several minutes.
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4. Remove this beaker from the ice bath and gently heat until it reaches 50
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degrees C. The solution is stirred constantly while being heated.
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5. Fifty additional grams of the acid from the first beaker are addedEand the
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temperature is allowed to rise to 55 C. This temp is held for the next ten
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minutes. an oily liquid will begin to form on the top of the acid.
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6. After 10-12 minutes, the acid solution is returned to the ice bath, and
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cooled to 45 C. When reaching this temp. the oily liquid will sink and collect
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at the bottom of the beaker. At this point, the remaining acid solution should
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be drawn off using a syringe.
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7. Fifty more grams of the first acid solution are added to the oily liquid
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while the temp. is slowly being raised to 83 C. After this, the temp. is
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maintained for 30 minutes.
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8. At the end of this period, the solution is allowed to cool to 60 C, and is
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held at this temp. for another 30 minutes. The acid is then again drawn off,
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leaving once more only the oily liquid at the bottom.
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9. Thirty grams of sulfuric acid are added, while the oily liquid is gently
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heated to 80 C. All temperature changes must be accomplished slowly and gently.
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10. Once the desired temperature is reached, 30 grams of the second solution
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are addedEand the temperature is raised from 80 to 104 C, and is held for 3
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hours.
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11. After the 3 hours, the mixture is lowered to 100 C and is held for 30
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minutes.
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12. The oil is then removed from the acid and washed in boiling water.
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13. While washing with boiling water, the TNT will begin to solidify.
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14. When it starts to solidify, cold water is added to the beaker, so that the
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TNT will form into pellets.. Once this is done, you have a good quality TNT
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which is very stable and can be melted at 82 C.
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