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- How to Make Nitroglycerin
- By: Karl Marx
-
-
- CH2ONO2
- ! 3/2 N2 + 3 CO2
- CHONO2 ----------> +
- ! Ignition 5/2 H2O + 1/4 O2
- CH2ONO2
-
- (How Nitro explodes--note that the byproducts are nothing but
- nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water and oxygen)
-
- Nitroglycerin [heretofore Nitro] is a very powerful high-
- explosive. I am not sure who invented it but he probably
- didn't-- the first person to make it probably blew himself up and
- his freind got the info off his notes. Well anyway, the next best
- thing to Nitro is TNT which is ten times harder to make but also
- ten times safer to make. If you can't use common sense then dont
- even TRY to make this stuff--a few drops can be lethal under
- certain circumstances.
-
- To make Nitro:
- == ==== ======
-
- Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid (for best results it should
- have a specific gravity of 50 degrees Baume') with 200 parts
- sulphuric acid. This is going to be HOT at first--it won't
- splatter if you pour the nitric INTO the sulphuric but don't try
- it the other way around.
- The acid solutions together can disolve flesh in a matter of
- seconds so take the proper measures for God's sake!!! When cool,
- add 38 parts glycerine as slowly as possible. Let it trickle down
- the sides of the container into the acids or it won't mix
- thourily and the reaction could go to fast--which causes enough
- heat to ignite the stuff. Stir with a **GLASS** rod for 15
- seconds or so then CARFULLY pour it into 20 times it's *VOLUME*
- of water. It will visibly precipitate immediatly. there will be
- twice as much Nitro as you used glycerin and it is easy to
- separate. Mix it with baking soda as soon as you have separated
- it-- this helps it not to go off spontainously.
-
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- NOTES: Parts are by weight and the Baume' scale of spicific
- gravity can be found in most chem. books. You ca get fuming
- nitric and sulfuric acids wherever good chemicals or fertilizers
- are sold. It is positivly *STUPID* to make more than 200 grams
- of Nitro at a time.
- When mixing the stuff wear goggles, gloves, etc. When I first
- made the stuff I had the honor of having it go off by itself (I
- added too much glycerine at a time.) I was across the room at
- the time, but I felt the impact--so did the table it was on as
- well as the window it was next to--they were both smashed by only
- 25 grams in an open bowl.
- Oh, yes, glycerine you can get at any pharmacy and you need an
- adult signature for the acids. Any bump can make Nitro go off if
- you don't add the bicarbonate of (baking) soda--but even with
- that, if it gets old I wouldn't play catch with it.
-
- Once you have made the Nitro and saturated it with Bicarb.
- you can make a really powerful explosive that won't go off by
- itself by simply mixing it with as much cotton as you can and
- then saturating that with molten ((parifine--just enough to make
- it sealed and hard.
- Typically, use the same amounts (by weight) of each Nitro, cotton
- and parifine. This, when wrapped in newspaper, was once known as
- "Norbin & Ohlsson's Patent Dynamite," but that was back in 1896.
-