Quote: Originally posted by Ral123 | That product you have is dangerous with all these acids. Putting it on glass and hitting it with something hard is very likely to cause a very bad
accident. Drying is done in dark place on let's say plastic surface with a small fan. Sun is very bad for almost all energetics, except may be ANFO
and UN. |
I'm not sure where you're getting this from, I didn't say anything about sun, or hitting anything on glass(I'm not an idiot). The tiny hammer test I
did was wrapped in a little foil and done outdoors on a brick.
I'll have to check out Home Depot for better EtOH. I'm pretty much positive it's acid free. I washed it numerous times with a sodium bicarbonate
solution. When it ceased bubbling I gave it another couple washes to be sure. Then rinsed it many more times with just plain distilled water. So I
wouldn't think acid is the issue.
I must say though that this morning I noticed an improvement. Its still moist though. The high humidity definitely doesn't help either so maybe it
just needs more time.
Would putting it in a contained with a desiccant of some sort maybe help?
As far as detonation, right now I planned to use 200mg of HMTD to initiate 2g of ETN. I would like to synth some silver acetylide also, the only
reason I haven't yet is lack of precursors.
Any alternate suggestions for initiation are welcome. |