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Killswitch, does it respond well to impact testing (steel + steel)? Are you able to get a melting point? It looks ok.
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My picric acid didn't detonate in a straw with AP(tetryl did in smaller straw). Looks like it's got some critical diameter. The second test was great.
Initiated with AP again and it did great dent for a cardboard charge. How do we make double base detonator with TNP?
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Kalium
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Is sodium salicylate a suitable phenol derivative for preparing picric acid?
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I don't know but I think once I made DNB with sodium benzoate. Well, it was insoluble, burned with a lot of soot and smelled. It took a lot of
nitrating mixture trough.
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Kalium
You can always treat the NaSali with dil HCl to get
Sali acid and NaCl so it doesn't interfere with the
HNO3 and H2SO4.
Salicylic acid nitrates to picric acid quite nicely.
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Use the detonator.
I use the Picric Acid of 1g loading detonator, HMTD of 0.2g as initiator.
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Does picric acid explodes or detonates if we keeps on heating in after confining it
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Ral123
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Probably will ignite, rise pressure, at high pressure hardly bunrable stuff like picric, tnt and un burns fast, even at high density in closed space.
If the case is strong enough above certain quantity you'll surely get ddt.
How is it possible to initiate reliably picric with just 0.2g hmtd, can it be that asa/salicilic gave different more sensitive product. I've heard
that cast picric acid needs not just No8 cap, but a booster.
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Picric acid is slightly more sensitive than TNT. Both of them, been ignited in confinement (large quantities enough), surely will explode. I failed to
wake up cast picnic acid, but I used some shit instead of normal primer- Ag2C2 (I had to make double salt- Ag2C2.AgNO3, but I did not know it at that
very time). Later I did not try to initiate picric acid, but only its salts- K and NH4 respectively. Ammonium picrate is less sensitive than picric
acid, but I had no problems with it, using TATP as a primer. Kalium salt of aforementioned acid burns violently in open air, leaving black smoke, but
explodes at nearly smokeless been ignited in confinement.
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Ral123
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You can't cast ammonium picrate, so why should it be less sensitive then cast picric acid? May be the least sensitive will be ammonium pricrate with
tnt cast. Can you share, how did you initiate ammonium picrate with AP?
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Very simple. I made detonators with 1-2 gr of TATP and it was more than enough to initiate AN + ammonium picrate. I cannot say you why ammonium
picrate is less sensitive than picric acid, but according all data what I have it is so. At nearly all ammonium salts are less sensitive than
corresponding acids (there is one exception- guess which?)
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Ral123
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Ammonium nitrite??
I'm interested how exactly you made your insensitive mixture go off with just AP. Did you use thin walled but hard aluminium case, short and fat,
pressed at hundreds of kilograms? The opposite, worst case is long and thin PP pipe with thick walls and just stuffed with a stick AP. Also what
density was your secondary?
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Yeah, but I actually thought about nitrate (it explodes, but not corresponding acid). You have a right idea about my detonator. An ordinary pencil was
wrapped with aluminum tinfoil (not the thinnest, most likely 0.1- 0.2 mm, I cannot say now). TATP was pressed with same pen. During that process I
kept my face far from that pencil and its possible trajectory. Then fuse was insert there and fixed. But if you have some picric acid and on the other
hand have prejudgements about TATP, you may use lead salt of picric acid as a primer and pressed picric acid as a buster. I think, 0.5 gr + 2 gr of
aforementioned compounds will be enough to wake cast picric acid up. I cannot say nothing about density of my secondary- It was in a simple plastic
packet and I pressed it in my fist.
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I have the feeling that lead picrate has long ddt and no better priming properties then stiphnate. I consider picrates more like for base charge. They
have good energy density compared to AP.
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Ill be surprised If you make it many more years with your hands intact. Hand pressing sensitive caps the way your describing is downright foolish. Not
jabbing at you , but you need to consider a loading devise, and keep your hands away from the loading process.
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May be. But in fact, my hand was enough far- 20 cm, no closer. I do not think, that I could have been seriously injured during that process. 1- 1.5 gr
at that distance may make some trouble only with heavy splinters, which thin tinfoil cannot generate.
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To @Ralf123: lead stiphnate surely is a better primer compared with lead picrate (but worse compared with lead azide). But if you have only picric
acid, lead picrate would be appropriate solution. Try it.
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I've heard stiphnate is a pseudo primary, along with things like lead nitrophosphite. I'm sure the stiphnate and picrate will be excellent initiators
once at maximum velocity.
Does somebody have an idea is it dangerous for picric acid to come in contact with other explosives like AP, or to me mixed with RDX? Can we mix
picric acid with for example potassium perchlorate?
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Picric acid can be safely mixed with TNT, dinitronaphtalene or similar neutral compounds. But never mix it with salts- picric acid is relatively
strong acid an in contact with compounds like AN trace amount of nitric acid surely occurs. If you want to mix it with oxidizers, convert picric acid
to its ammonium salt. Some mixtures of picric acid was in use during WWI and WWII. Shellite for example (picric acid + some dinitrophenole or
mononitrophenole) or russian alloy- picric acid + dinitronaphtalene.
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