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%% THE HYDROCHLORIC ACID GOODY! %%
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%% The Poor Man's James Bond %%
%% By: Kurt Saxon %%
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The hydrochloric acid goody is the most fun in the whole book. It takes
many forms and works on the principle the hydrochloric acid reacts with
aluminum powder, foil or metal, releasing a great, dark cloud or noxious gas
which looks horrible and smells worse.
Hydrochloric acid is used for killing algae in swimming pools and for
cleaning tile and stone work.
Where swimming pools are common it can be bought at the supermarket for
less than a dollar a gallon. It is also sold at hardware stores.
Being only 37% strength, it is seldom harmful to the skin but will eat
through clothing like battery acid.
Hydrochloric acid is also know as muriatic acid.
On damp nights, a bottle of the acid alone, broken in the midst of a
crowd, will form noxious clouds of chlorine gas. Scream "Poison gas!" and you
will have a panic that will give you laughs for years.
When you get some, open it up and give it a sniff. It won't hurt you
because you couldn't stand to smell enough to be harmed. Then put a couple of
square inches of aluminum foil in a can in your sink and pour some acid on the
foil. If the acid bottle has been tightly capped the reaction of breaking down
the aluminum and producing a dark noxious gas should start in about a minute.
If the bottle has been setting for months, poorly capped, the reaction may be
immediate. You can stop the action at any time by turning on the faucet and
flooding the aluminum with water.
When you have tested the reaction with foil, try it with powder and then
with aluminum metal cut from pipe or a slab.
The versatility of the hydrochloric acid goody is amazing and should keep
you fascinated for hours.
Say you're sitting in a booth in a gay bar. You have a brown paper bag
at your feet by the wall. In the bag is a gallon wine bottle. Now, being a
practical joker, you have poured about a pint of the hydrochloric acid into
the bottle and nearly filled it with gasoline. The acid is on the bottom as it
is heavier than the gasoline.
When you finished your beer, you drop a few chunks of aluminum cut from a
pipe into the bottle and cap it tightly. Then you swish out, so you won't be
noticed. Soon the gas will burst the bottle and gasoline will be everywhere.
And if many of the dear things are smoking there will be burning faggots
galore. Burning faggots, get it? Oh well.
Of course, the Militant's most common use of the hydrochloric acid goody
is to clear areas of people he doesn't like. In a movie or a meeting hall a
tin can full of aluminum powder, foil or chunks is put under a seat. The acid
is in a bottle with its mouth covered with a couple of plastic bags held in
place with a rubber band. You can also use a plain rubber or a balloon over
the mouth of the bottle.
The cover is pierced with a pencil and the bottle is upended into the can,
after which, the Militant gets up and walks out. If the acid is old and reacts
immediately, a wad of sponge is put over the aluminum, causing the needed
delay.
A person sitting beside the Militant would not notice anything, especially
if something exciting was happening up front. By the time he noticed the
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