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How to Make Nitroglycerin
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CH2ONO2
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!
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3/2 N2 + 3 CO2
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CHONO2 ---------->
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+
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! Ignition
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5/2 H2O + 1/4 O2
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CH2ONO2
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(How Nitro explodes--note that the byproducts are nothing but nitrogen, carbon
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dioxide, water and oxygen)
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Nitroglycerin [heretofore Nitro] is a very high-explosive. I am not sure
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who invented it but he porbably didn't-- the first preson to make it blew
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himself up and his friend got the info off his notes. Well anyway, the next
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best thing to nitro is TNT which is ten times harder to make but also ten
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times safer to make. If you can't use common sense then don't even try to make
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this stuff-- a few drops can be lethal under certain circumstances.
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To make Nitro:
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Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid(for best results it should have a
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specific gravity of 50 degrees Baume') with 200 parts sulphuric acid. This is
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going to be hot at first--it won't splatter if you pour the nitric into the
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sulphuric but don't try it the other way around. The acid solutions together
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can dissolve flesh in a matter of seconds so take the proper measures for
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God's sake!!! When cool, add 38 parts glycerine as slowly as possible. Let it
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trickle down the sides of the container into the acids or it won't mix
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thourily and the reaction could go fast--which causes heat to ignite the
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stuff. Stir with a **GLASS** rod for about 15 seconds or so then **CAREFULLY**
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pour it into 20 times it's **VOLUME** of water. It will visibly precipate
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immediatly. There will be twice as much Nitro as you used glycerin and it is
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easy to seperate. Mix it with baking soda as soon as you have seperated it--
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this helps it not to go off spontainously.
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NOTES: Parts are by weight and the Baume' scale of specific gravity can be
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found in most chem. books. You can get fuming nitric and sulfuric acid where
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ever goo chemical or fertilizers are sold. It is positivly *STUPID* to make
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more than 200 grams of Nitro at a time. When mixing the stuff wear goggles,
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gloves, etc. When I first made the stuff I had the honor of having it go off
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by itself (I added too much glycerin at a time). I was across the room at the
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time, but I felt the impact-- so did the table it was on as well as the window
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it was next to--they were both smashed by only 25 grams in an open bowl. Oh
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yes, glycerine you can get at any pharmacy and you need an adults sigature for
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the acids. Any bump can make Nitro go off if you don't add the bicarbonate of
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(baking) soda-but even with that, if it gets old I wouldn't play catch with
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it.
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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 with
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as much cotton as you can add and then saturating it that with molten
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parifine--just enough to make it sealed and hard. Typically use the same
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amounts (by weight) of each Nitro, cotton, and parifine. This when wrapped in
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newspaper, was once known as "Norbin & Ohlsson's Patent Dynamite," but that
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was back in 1896.
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