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Yup, Tannerite will detonate from a bullet strike. I have a 5 gal bucket of nitrate I picked up from a fertilizer spill but its so damn humid here
I'd have to invest in a vacuum desiccator to ever dry it.
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On arrest, his first words were; "Fuck, I suppose this means Trump's going to stiff me, too"?
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Yeah, but not from a "Christmas light", or from being hit by a car, even one traveling over 300 mph.
I'm surprised to hear that "a half assed cap will do", but then I have next-to-no EM experience.
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hissingnoise
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Christmas lights make good, improvised ignitors!
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So you're saying a glowing wire is all it takes to set off Tannerite? That contradicts most of what I've read.
Edit:
While researching this further, I discovered a New York Times correspondent claiming the bombs were in fact made with HMTD.
[Edited on 19-9-2016 by zwt]
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hissingnoise
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| Quote: | | So you're saying a glowing wire is all it takes to set off Tannerite? |
Not nececcelery ─ and I didn't mention tannerite?
It will certainly, though, fire an improvised detonator!
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zwt
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My mistake. As your comment lacked any other context, I thought you were
responding to my comment about the inability of such things as the filament of a Christmas light or a subsonic impact to reliably initiate Tannerite
specifically. I agree that an incandescent light bulb filament could initiate a sensitive primary which could then set off a less-sensitive secondary,
like Tannerite.
[Edited on 19-9-2016 by zwt]
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Would the pressure cooker confine the AN/Al mixture effectively enough that it would transition to detonation after being ignited? Or would there have
to be a primary involved?
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Quote: Originally posted by NedsHead  | | My original comment was just a sceptical observation about the order of events, although it could just be the "signal amplifying" iron helmet talking,
I'll switch back to tin foil shortly. yes, the follow up conversation with Bert was about Kelly |
Interesting,
I had never heard of Ned Kelly. I always assumed that your username was a Game of Thrones reference.
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| Quote: Originally posted by camerican | | Would the pressure cooker confine the AN/Al mixture effectively enough that it would transition to detonation after being ignited? Or would there have
to be a primary involved? |
AN/Al will not even sustain combustion let alone undergo DDT. It requires a detonator.
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is that what people have been thinking about me? a grown man who has named his user profile after Game of Thrones? I wasn't even aware because I've
never watched it, I don't even know if it's a television show or a movie
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Texium
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| Quote: Originally posted by NedsHead | | is that what people have been thinking about me? a grown man who has named his user profile after Game of Thrones? I wasn't even aware because I've
never watched it, I don't even know if it's a television show or a movie |
Haha, it's a show on HBO, and a
very good one. Personally I don't think it reflects badly on you at all, but I'm biased since I like the show.
[spoiler] There's a prominent character named Ned who gets beheaded at the end of season one and it was kind of a big deal.
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| Quote: Originally posted by zts16 | | Haha, it's a show on HBO, and a very good one. Personally I don't think it reflects badly on you at all, but I'm biased since I like the show.
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well that"s a relief,
even fictional Ned's have a hard time keeping their heads on their shoulders
Edit: it also explains why the user name "Ned'sHead" (with the apostrophe) was taken, I couldn't imagine why anyone else would want that user name
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| Quote: Originally posted by NedsHead | | You know your Aussie history Bert! I'm impressed, it's my iron helmet, it picks up and transmits wifi signals |
Read "The Fatal Shore" a while back. "I am a tedious sink of useless knowledge".
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| Quote: Originally posted by zwt | So you're saying a glowing wire is all it takes to set off Tannerite? That contradicts most of what I've read.
Edit:
While researching this further, I discovered a New York Times correspondent claiming the bombs were in fact made with HMTD.
[Edited on 19-9-2016 by zwt] |
All secondaries need a primary to set off, and higher powered primaries need a initiator such as heat spark of friction.
It is called an explosive train, so one can use a bit of wire and a match for the start of the train, then HMTD/TATP/lead azid, mercury fulimate and
so on.
This then leads to the booster, this can be a mixture of a primary and secondary, or a fairly sensitive secondary.
Then your main bursting charge, but in the case of a sensitized explosive such as Am/Al One can use a simpler train with just two stages at the cost
of slight higher chance of failure.
Thank fully the ones building these devices tend not to be the smartest to begin with! In the technical arts.
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Conversely, most people smart enough to build and deploy complex devices are also smart enough to know that doing so would be a horrible idea.
However, one can cause plenty of terror with quite primitive methods (like a big truck moving very fast).
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