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How much do explosives cost?
At the ski resort I go to, they light These 2lb pentolite hand charges left and right all day long for avalanche control. Makes me wonder how much
each of these cost? They require the use of a lot of sulfuric and nitric acid which aren't cheap (for me anyways)
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They're okay, once produced on industrial scales. RDX could have around 10 $/kg as the minimum cost or even less. However they sell much higher.
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Hope you have a BATFE license! (assuming you are in the USA)
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That's strange I have the feeling that fine RDX would cost about 50$ kg.
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Nope, industry can buy 99% Nitric Acid by the ton for relatively cheap, I think they also use a more efficient process using less valuable chems like
nitric acid (Bachmann?) and more acetic anhydride and ammonium nitrate. But, who knows?
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Nitric acid 68% and 99% cost a lot less than a grand per metric ton, so goes for oleum, and the the rest materials, like hexamine or pentaerythritol
or toluene cost all around 1-4usd per kg. The manufacturing safety standards and the profits bear the highest increase on the cost of the explosive
materials, and the TNT being one of the cheapest may cost less than 2 bucks a kg from bulk production line.
I calculated that without the apparatus and labor costs I could make rdx at rate of about 30bucks a kg. That's from OTC stuff, including impure
commercial fertilizer as a source of nitric acid and ammonia, and methanol as a source of formaldehyde. If I'd get them from industrial supply, the
cost would go down at least 50%.
[Edited on 3-1-2014 by testimento]
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Ral123
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Quote: Originally posted by testimento  | Nitric acid 68% and 99% cost a lot less than a grand per metric ton, so goes for oleum, and the the rest materials, like hexamine or pentaerythritol
or toluene cost all around 1-4usd per kg. The manufacturing safety standards and the profits bear the highest increase on the cost of the explosive
materials, and the TNT being one of the cheapest may cost less than 2 bucks a kg from bulk production line.
I calculated that without the apparatus and labor costs I could make rdx at rate of about 30bucks a kg. That's from OTC stuff, including impure
commercial fertilizer as a source of nitric acid and ammonia, and methanol as a source of formaldehyde. If I'd get them from industrial supply, the
cost would go down at least 50%.
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Add to that the price of pure analitical acetone to purify the sh*t. If RDX is so cheap, that explains why nobody bothers with Tetryl any more.
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I only use industrial and technical grade stuff.
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