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Safety with energetic materials
Energetic materials are interesting and fun to learn about however they are very dangerous and serio ...
4-3-2010 at 11:07
by: gregxy
Some old English patents appertaining to mixtures intended to substitute primary explosives
The point of my experiment is that a real primary does not
need confinement. It will also show wha ...
22-2-2010 at 11:19
by: gregxy
Some old English patents appertaining to mixtures intended to substitute primary explosives
I doubt that these compositions work.

Here is a simple way to test primaries,

Wrap a 1.5" squa ...
20-2-2010 at 12:04
by: gregxy
Endless Oil?
The economic expansion in China and India must be creatating more demand for oil and causing the pri ...
11-2-2010 at 10:53
by: gregxy
Some old English patents appertaining to mixtures intended to substitute primary explosives
It would be interesting to see how chlorate+X compares to various primary explosives in the drop tes ...
22-1-2010 at 11:59
by: gregxy
Does anybody brew/ Make wine here?
I used to make beer, in 4 gallon batches. It was fun but
something often went wrong you ended up w ...
10-11-2009 at 16:52
by: gregxy
could you eat rotten meat if you boiled it long enough
However, from what I can tell, the articles say that the ptomaines are harmless, (although foul sme ...
18-8-2009 at 12:02
by: gregxy
could you eat rotten meat if you boiled it long enough
This is kind of a strange question but I have wondered about
it for a while.

I did a web search ...
18-8-2009 at 09:27
by: gregxy
Potato cannon and explosion physics
The reference below documents DDT in hydrogen/air
mixtures in open pipes. The transition (under bes ...
28-4-2009 at 12:31
by: gregxy
Potato cannon and explosion physics
Burning air/gas can transition to detonation and
as with primaries it is more likely in a closed sp ...
17-4-2009 at 14:50
by: gregxy
Potato cannon and explosion physics
A while back I made a potato cannon that burned MAPP gas.
The combustion chamber was 6" dia and abo ...
17-4-2009 at 10:52
by: gregxy
power-transistors as rectifiers ?
If you short B-C you can get 10A/transistor, but as 12AX7 pointed out, the reverse voltage will be t ...
7-11-2008 at 13:36
by: gregxy
power-transistors as rectifiers ?
If you want to use them as diodes, tie the base to the collector. But since you burned out a 33 amp ...
6-11-2008 at 15:09
by: gregxy
More on PbO2 electrodes
There were some hints at this earlier but why not try the
following:

1. Get a cylindrical plasti ...
29-9-2008 at 17:00
by: gregxy
Run-Your-Car-With-Water
I remember that Wired magazine had an excellent article showing how different energy technologies be ...
4-9-2008 at 09:37
by: gregxy
DIY Atom Smasher
Look at the legal troubles that the "Ghost Busters" got into
for having an unlicensed atom smasher. ...
26-8-2008 at 12:36
by: gregxy
To find (or not)
If you are looking for medical information, or information related to drugs, biochemistry etc. the ...
22-8-2008 at 09:16
by: gregxy
Related question MgO in stomach acid
I have some MgO pills (dietary magnesium suppliment).

When I have eaten them they don't seem to d ...
15-8-2008 at 15:00
by: gregxy
Electric motor driven alternators for high amp 6V current..
For my chlorate cell, I used a variac, a transformer from a
dead UPS and a large fullwave bridge to ...
23-7-2008 at 07:46
by: gregxy
Electric motor driven alternators for high amp 6V current..
The confusion here seems to be on current and frequency.

A battery can supply more charge (curren ...
22-7-2008 at 16:43
by: gregxy
Annoying neighbors
In addition to fears of bomb making terrorists and meth
cooks, many people (even reasonable ones) ...
26-6-2008 at 14:18
by: gregxy
Sulfuric acid dye
I bought some Roto which has a yellow color probably due impurities rather than dye. Before I use it ...
6-6-2008 at 08:23
by: gregxy
Toxcity of explosives?
people use dinitrophenol as a weight loss aid and take
grams of the stuff orally. Not very smart bu ...
30-5-2008 at 10:07
by: gregxy
Sword Forging!
One of my other hobbies is building fighting robots
(battlebots). The favorite alloy for making sp ...
16-5-2008 at 19:18
by: gregxy
nitroglycerin
One way to purify your acids would be to add the nitrate salt to the H2SO4 and then heat the mixture ...
23-4-2008 at 10:10
by: gregxy
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