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Safety fuse
(slow match)
Use this essential component to ignite some of the explosives listed
below. Keep in mind that other safety steps have to be set up before
starting the fuse.
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Before using this helpful component it is
really important to know how to treat it.
A matter of fact is that safety fuses burn up in comparatively different
rates. Always test the burning speed of your own produced cords because
of the paste's varying coarseness.
NOTE: It is only a question of time when things happen too fast and
cause unexpected injurious results.
Some explosives must not be ignited directly. Therefore it is a good
advice to use safety fuses. |
Alexej's powerful 'heat-bomb'
This powerful and destructive substance evaporates everything and
itself in a given range. As a nuke-like bomb it emits an unpleasant
white and bluish flash of light blinding its viewers. The heat of
5000°C burns off everything and sets free a high pressured gas that
creates a deafening detonation.
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Never (!) keep this substance in wet or even
humid places. Keep it in a secure bottle in a dry and
cold place ! Beware of the temperature rising above 70°C
! If it suddenly gets warmer than your body temperature, it will be
better to cancel the whole experiment. Use it in a secure place. Beware
of the blinding light - use protective goggles and gloves. 5000 °C is
an average temperature in this case.
If you want to find out more about fine aluminium-powder, link to:
http://www.argonide.com
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nitrocellulose
(nitric ester of cellulose)
guncotton
(Schiessbaumwolle)
This quite explosive cotton-like substance burns off like lightning
in contact with air and heat ! Fire, pressure or primary explosives will
be sufficient to get a satisfying result !
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Ingredients:
Wikipedia
Experimentalchemie
Chemie am
Landesinstitut für Pädagogik und Medien, Saarbrücken, Versuche
zur Anorganischen Chemie (Sekundarstufe I), Versuch
98
Pure cotton, nitrating acid (HNO3 + H2SO4)
20 ml of concentrated nitric acid with 40 ml of concentrated sulfuric
acid. The cotton (2 g) being influenced by the prepared nitric acid
about 15 min.
Cleanse the received product until it is free of acid. It should be
washed with water until it gets neutral. Dry guncotton to introduce its
reactivity.
As its name introduces the military function, guncotton was once used
as a initial detonating agent for guns etc.
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Never use guncotton in large quantities !
Nitrocellulose is very evaporative because of its high combustibility.
It burns off without nearly any residues. Beware of its explosiveness.
Once stuffed into a tight metallic container a grenade-like bomb will be
the hazardous result. Use only for shooting experiments and the purpose
of high pressure. It is even better to study it for the very first time
in order to learn its powers: burn it off in open conditions.
Deutscher
Bildungsserver
Universität Frankfurt, Schauvorlesung
Dialyse
mit Schießbaumwolle
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black powder
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Ingredients:
Wikipedia
Chemie am
Landesinstitut für Pädagogik und Medien, Saarbrücken, Versuche
zur Anorganischen Chemie (Sekundarstufe I), Versuch
107
Universität
Siegen
Universität Bayreuth:
Chemie
der Feuerwerkskörper, Didaktik der Chemie
Sternblog
75 % KNO3, 10 % S, 15 % C (Potassium nitrate, pure sulfur and
charcoal) |
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As a matter of fact, black powder is used for
various explosives. Add 5-10 % water in order to keep the substance
under secure conditions. Never keep black powder in large amounts - for
instance in metallic containers ! Use wooden barrels or a plastic bottle.
Deutscher
Bildungsserver
Universität Frankfurt, Schauvorlesung
Schwarzpulver für Ihre Gesundheit
Schwarzpulver im Österreichischen
Bundesheer :
"Viele Versuche mit Schießpulver erbrachten 1425 das "Nürnberger
Rezept" für Schwarzpulver, welches 6 Teile Salpeter sowie je einen
Teil Schwefel und Kohle vorsah."
[Impressum: Eigentümer und
Herausgeber
Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung
Roßauer Lände 1, 1090 Wien
Kontaktaufnahme]
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manganese oxides
dimangane heptoxide
[Mn2O7]
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Ingredients:
KMnO4, H2SO4
Explosive dark metallic greenish-brown oil. Evaporates at a
temperature of 40-50°C.
Reaction / decay (40-50°C):
2 Mn2O7 --> 4 MnO2 + 2O3 (ozone)
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Beware of the temperature rising above 40°C
! This agent is a good example for reactive compounds. |
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Risky explosive,
used for rocket propulsives, artillery, underwater projectiles.
(experienced by Christoph L. and Stephan Simon)
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Today, hexogen is recognized as an important
military explosive being chemically stable and having a good handling.
Deutscher
Bildungsserver
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| Smoke Bombs |
Ingredients:
KNO3, sugar
A relatively cheap and simple smoke mixture is potassium nitrate
(saltpetre) and sugar. The mixture can be used in powder form, but much
better results are achieved by melting the components together. The
mixture should be heated slowly until it just melts !
The mixture does not have to be completely liquid, the point at which
it has about the viscosity of tar or cold honey is about right. While it
is semi-liquid it can be poured into cardboard or clay molds, and a fuse
inserted. Once it cools and hardens it will be similar to a stick of
hard candy, hence its common name of "caramel candy".
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The mixture should be heated slowly until it
just melts - beware of excessive heating as the mixture will ignite.
Keep a bucket of water next to you in case the mixture does ignite, and
peform the entire operation outdoors if possible.
The mixture burns very hot. Don't go near it once ignited, and don't
assume that whatever the mixture is contained in or standing on will
survive. Do not try to breathe in the smoke as fine particles in the
lungs are not good for them.
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| Burning powder
This substance burns up quickly with a bright flame.
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Ingredients:
KNO3, S, icy sugar (confectioner's sugar)
Mix potassium nitrate, sulfur and icy sugar in a ratio of 1:1:1
(volume declaration).
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Keep the substance under secure conditions.
Never keep burning powder in large amounts. |
| White Fire
Burns up with a dazzling white flame
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"Realgar" (As2S2
- an arsenic sulfide) and "Arsenik" (As2O3)
are both highly toxic. Beware of the generated arsenic gases (2 As2O3
<=> As4O6), they are color- and odourless. |
Military smoke
powder
Releases vast amounts of smoke.
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Military smoke powder can cause eye-,
pulmonary- and mucous mebrane irritation. Do not try to inhale the smoke
as it contains harmful partciles. |
Ethyleneglycol
dinitrate, Glycol
dinitrate
high-explosive dynamite, explodes more violently than nitroglycerin.
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Glycol dinitrate is highly toxic and can be
absorbed by skin easily. Handle this substance carefully because it is
very volatile.
Glycol dintrate is also less sensitive to shocks than
nitroglycerin making it more safe in handling. That is why it replaced
its more dangerous forerunner effectively.
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