24 lines
1.2 KiB
Plaintext
24 lines
1.2 KiB
Plaintext
How To Make Nitrogen Tri-Iodide
|
|
-------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Probably the most hazardous explosive compound of all is nitrogen
|
|
tri-iodide. Strangely enough, it is very popular with high school chemsits,
|
|
who do not have the vaguest idea of what they are doing. The reason for its
|
|
popularity may be the ready availability of the ingredients, but it is so
|
|
sensitive to friction that a fly landing on it, has been known to detonate it.
|
|
The recipe has only been included as a warning and a curiosity. It should not
|
|
be used.
|
|
[1> Add a small amount of solid iodine crystals to about 20 cc. of
|
|
concentrated ammonium hydroxide. This operation must be performed
|
|
very slowly, until a brownish-red precipitate is formed.
|
|
[2> Now it is filtered through filter paper, and then washed first with
|
|
alcohol and secondly with ether.
|
|
|
|
Tri-idodide must remain wet, since when it dries it becomes super-
|
|
sensitive to friction, and a slight touch can set it off. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY
|
|
DANGEROUS COMPOUND AND SHOULD NOT BE EXPERIMENTED WITH.
|
|
|
|
************************************************
|
|
|
|
|