Has anyone around here tried testing this strange claim found on page 425 of The Techno-chemical Receipt Book (1887 edition), under the
heading of "New Method of Preparing Giant Powder"?:
No need to prepare the nitroglycerine separately. The heat of the reaction nitrates the incorporated glycerine and detonates it. Sounds a bit
difficult to believe.hissingnoise - 2-1-2009 at 10:27
A bit difficult doesn't go far enough!
It's just not credible, period. . .Blasty - 2-1-2009 at 11:37
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Originally posted by hissingnoise
A bit difficult doesn't go far enough!
It's just not credible, period. . .
I agree. For curiosity's sake, though, it would be interesting to prepare a couple of small batches of the mixture and set them off with a fuse, one
unconfined and the other confined. It would be particularly interesting to see if the unconfined one explodes. I might give it a try later on this
year, since I don't have all the required chemicals at the moment.kclo4 - 2-1-2009 at 12:30
It also adds chlorate doesn't it?
Seems really dangerous to mix those together.Blasty - 2-1-2009 at 14:07
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Originally posted by kclo4
It also adds chlorate doesn't it?
Seems really dangerous to mix those together.
Yes, a chlorate (it says "some chlorate") goes into the mix. There is no free sulfur, but a bisulfate does go in among the ingredients. Not sure how
sensitive would this be. I have seen other chlorate-based explosives from those times which were reputed to be "safe" and used sulfates. Asphaline was
considered to be one of the safest of all chlorate based explosives, and it had a sulfate among its ingredients:
