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HDN Synthesis Problem HDN often decomposes, producing formaldehyde if the temperature gets too high at some point, or some ... |
11-8-2011 at 07:22 by: Microtek |
ETN: almost killed myself... READ! A few years ago, I was doing a series of (very successful) experiments on small rockets with composi ... |
6-6-2011 at 22:42 by: Microtek |
High VoD explosives suggestions? I find it very hard to believe that any hydrogen/oxygen mix would have a higher VOD than NG. Simply ... |
3-6-2011 at 03:56 by: Microtek |
Azides Well, Pb(OH)2 is extremely insoluble so any hydroxide in your NaN3 soln would give rise to lead hydr ... |
30-4-2011 at 13:43 by: Microtek |
Azides Have you tested the supposed NaN3? It's wonderfully easy to do qualitative tests for primary explosi ... |
19-4-2011 at 09:21 by: Microtek |
nitroglycerin I have always found that air agitation stripped off too much of the nitric, giving huge clouds of fu ... |
30-1-2011 at 10:57 by: Microtek |
sheet explosive "Plumber's putty" is (as far as I can see) not a well defined material, but the one MSDS that I coul ... |
27-1-2011 at 02:24 by: Microtek |
nitroglycerin Why don't you just make some CaCO3? Surely you must have access to a soluble calcium salt (CaCl2 or ... |
21-1-2011 at 14:15 by: Microtek |
sheet explosive I remember reading a patent about using liquid latex (or alternatively silicone) as binder in flexib ... |
19-1-2011 at 01:08 by: Microtek |
nitroglycerin Many kitchen appliances are made precisely for stirring, so I suggest that you buy a cheap hand mixe ... |
12-1-2011 at 14:02 by: Microtek |
Nitrating of materials? Phosphoric acid is very non-volatile, so you should easily be able to distil the (dilute) nitric aci ... |
11-1-2011 at 06:13 by: Microtek |
Safer Charge Designs Legislation differs wildly in some areas; in my country inorganic nitrite is labeled as a toxin and ... |
6-1-2011 at 14:25 by: Microtek |
Safer Charge Designs Well, to make azo-chlathrate you azide. To make azide in the amateur lab, the reaction of organic ni ... |
6-1-2011 at 02:35 by: Microtek |
Safer Charge Designs
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How can a primary be less sensitive than the base charge?
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Less sensitive to ... |
5-1-2011 at 11:04 by: Microtek |
Safer Charge Designs Oh, I've experimented with that sort of thing in the past (separating primary and base charge). The ... |
2-1-2011 at 14:31 by: Microtek |
Safer Charge Designs I think it's a rather impractical idea. I'm sure it will make it a little less likely that you will ... |
1-1-2011 at 15:20 by: Microtek |
safer NG alternatives I got 52 % yield from the H2SO4/HNO3 system, 62 % from P2O5/HNO3 and 77 % from Ac2O/HNO3 (after recr ... |
27-12-2010 at 15:17 by: Microtek |
safer NG alternatives I have made this. As I explained in the dedicated thread (which wasn't authored by me), I chose the ... |
25-12-2010 at 09:02 by: Microtek |
Unconventional Shaped Charges Have you looked at the higher resolution pictures that NUKE provided? I suppose you could possibly m ... |
19-12-2010 at 03:43 by: Microtek |
Unconventional Shaped Charges If that's a "debarked log", it's the most perfectly straight one I've ever seen. And those "growth r ... |
14-12-2010 at 14:15 by: Microtek |
First Rocket Candy attempt Candy propellant is quite safe (as energetics go). If you haven't already, take a look at James Yawn ... |
30-11-2010 at 06:34 by: Microtek |
rdx synthesis via near pure hno3 XNO3 + H2SO4 liberates highly concentrated nitric acid. When this is distilled (particularly at atmo ... |
16-11-2010 at 08:51 by: Microtek |
Project Have you asked your teachers/tutors whether you can be allowed to synthesize energetic materials in ... |
9-11-2010 at 00:07 by: Microtek |
nitroglycerin Surely, it must be possible to initiate a 15:85 mix of methanol and NG with a suitable detonator (I ... |
29-10-2010 at 05:53 by: Microtek |
nitroglycerin Supposedly, DCM is a very good medium for aromatics nitration. I read somewhere that toluene was qua ... |
28-10-2010 at 13:27 by: Microtek |
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