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Article Five
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Peroxy-Acetone Made Easy
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The following are instructions given in the file HANDBOOK.TXT on how to make
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Peroxy-Acetone:
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A. Peroxyacetone
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Peroxyacetone is extremely flammable and has been reported to be
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shock sensitive.
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Materials-
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4ml Acetone
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4ml 30% Hydrogen Peroxide
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4 drops conc. hydrochloric acid
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150mm test tube
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Add 4ml acetone and 4ml hydrogen peroxide to the test tube. Then add 4
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drops concentrated hydrochloric acid. In 10-20 minutes a white solid should
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begin to appear. If no change is observed, warm the test tube in a water
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bath at 40 celsius. Allow the reaction to continue for two hours.
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Swirl the slurry and filter it. Leave out on filter paper to dry for at
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least two hours. To ignite, light a candle tied to a meter stick and
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light it (while staying at least a meter away).
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Ok, these instructions have some major problems! Let's see...
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1. Peroxy-Acetone IS extremely flammable, but it is NOT shock sensitive.
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That is, the Peroxy-Acetone that you can make at home isn't. You will
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be limited to using (at best) only 31.4% Hydrochloric Acid and only 3%
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Hydrogen Peroxide (that's the only concentration sold in drug stores).
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What this means is that your reaction will not occur as fast, and will
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produce less Peroxy-Acetone then mentioned in the above passage.
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2. Suggestion: If you are going to do this, due to the weak concentrations
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of your chemicals, do it on a larger scale with the same
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ratio. For example: 4 parts Acetone
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40 parts H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide)
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22 drops HCl
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I haven't actually tried these specific amounts yet, but
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mathematically speaking, they sound good. Since we want
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30% H2O2 in the solution, and we only have 3%, adding 10
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times the amount of 3% H2O2 should contain enough to
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react properly. The increased amount of HCl should
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compensate for the concentration problem, aswell as the
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excess water in the solution (ie. the H2O2 is 3% Hydrogen
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Peroxide and 97% water so there is all that water in our
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solution because of it).
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3. The reaction MAY produce white crystals in the solution as early as
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in 20 minutes, but don't count on it. Be patient, they'll form! Give
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it 12-24 hours. If nothing occurs after that, try heating the solution
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a little either through a hot water bath, or gently heating over a
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candle (make sure you don't catch the Acetone on fire, it's EXTREMELY
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flammable).
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4. Filter out the crystals and leave them on the filter paper to dry. When
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dry, use them right away. Ignite them with an open flame. To be safe,
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use a long piece of wood (30cm should do it) and light the one end
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somehow, or use a fuse. This stuff goes up FAST as in INSTANTANEOUSLY!
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So make sure you're watching, or you'll miss the flame ball :)
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NOTE: Acetone is carcinogenic! In other words, it causes cancer (in large
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amounts). So don't start inhaling the stuff, and try to keep it off
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of your skin (it'll take the natural oils out of your skin).
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