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Article 9
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Making Potassium Chlorate
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The following is an excerpt from The Jolly Roger's book on explosives:
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Making Plastic Explosives from Bleach by The Jolly Roger
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Potassium chlorate is an extremely volatile explosive compound,
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and has been used in the past as the main explosive filler in
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grenades, land mines, and mortar rounds by such countries as
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France and Germany. Common household bleach contains a small
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amount of potassium chlorate, which can be extracted by the
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procedure that follows.
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First off, you must obtain:
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[1] A heat source (hot plate, stove, etc.)
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[2] A hydrometer, or battery hydrometer
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[3] A large Pyrex, or enameled steel container (to weigh
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chemicals)
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[4] Potassium chloride (sold as a salt substitute at health and
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nutrition stores)
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Take one gallon of bleach, place it in the container, and begin
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heating it. While this solution heats, weigh out 63 grams of
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potassium chloride and add this to the bleach being heated.
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Constantly check the solution being heated with the hydrometer,
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and boil until you get a reading of 1.3. If using a battery
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hydrometer, boil until you read a FULL charge.
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Take the solution and allow it to cool in a refrigerator until it
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is between room temperature and 0 degrees Celcius. Filter out the
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crystals that have formed and save them. Boil this solution again
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and cool as before. Filter and save the crystals.
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Take the crystals that have been saved, and mix them with
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distilled water in the following proportions: 56 grams per 100
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milliliters distilled water. Heat this solution until it boils
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and allow to cool. Filter the solution and save the crystals that
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form upon cooling. This process of purification is called
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"fractional crystalization". These crystals should be relatively
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pure potassium chlorate.
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Powder these to the consistency of face powder, and heat gently to
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drive off all moisture.
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Now, melt five parts Vaseline with five parts wax. Dissolve this
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in white gasoline (camp stove gasoline), and pour this liquid on
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90 parts potassium chlorate (the powdered crystals from above)
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into a plastic bowl. Knead this liquid into the potassium
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chlorate until intimately mixed. Allow all gasoline to evaporate.
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Finally, place this explosive into a cool, dry place. Avoid
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friction, sulfur, sulfides, and phosphorous compounds. This
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explosive is best molded to the desired shape and density of 1.3
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grams in a cube and dipped in wax until water proof. These block
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type charges guarantee the highest detonation velocity. Also, a
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blasting cap of at least a 3 grade must be used.
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The presence of the afore mentioned compounds (sulfur, sulfides,
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etc.) results in mixtures that are or can become highly sensitive
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and will possibly decompose explosively while in storage. You
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should never store homemade explosives, and you must use EXTREME
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caution at all times while performing the processes in this
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article.
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I have two words for this article: BULL SHIT!
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Mixing Potassium Chloride with Bleach is NOT going to give you Potassium
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Chlorate. I tried it myself with precise scrutiny and it did not work. I
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tried it several times, and still it did not work.
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Now, mixing Potassium Chloride with Sodium Hypochlorite (the principle
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ingredient in bleach) does form Potassium Chlorate when heated EXTREMELY hot.
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But the probelm is that you need potassium chloride solid, and sodium
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hypochlorite solid too, so you'll have to dehydrate the bleach.
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The next problem is that the Potassium Chloride and the Sodium Hypochlorite
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must be heated together at high temperature. What will happen though is that
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you can't tell when the two have completed the reaction, and it you let them
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heat for too long, they'll form Potassium chlorate, the Potassium chlorate
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will ignite and form Potassium Chloraide again!
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Basically, I say don't waste your time with this process. I will look around
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and see if I can't come up with a better idea to make this stuff. Or you
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could call around to some chem supply places (Chemfil Canada I believe will
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supply this stuff) and just buy it! If they ask what it is for, tell them
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it's for your chemistry set or something and you want it to experiment with
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Stoichiometry :) Or if you don't want to do that, steal some from your
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Chem lab! :)
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