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- Making Picric Acid from Aspirin by the Jolly Roger
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- Picric Acid can be used as a booster explosive in detonators, a high
- explosive charge, or as an intermediate to preparing lead picrate.
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- Material Required
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- Aspirin tablets (5 grains per tablet)
- Alcohol, 95% pure
- Sulfuric acid, concentrated, (if battery acid, boil until white fumes
- disappear)
- Potassium Nitrate (see elsewhere in this Cookbook)
- Water
- Paper towels
- Canning jar, 1 pint
- Rod (glass or wood)
- Glass containers
- Ceramic or glass dish
- Cup
- Teaspoon
- Tablespoon
- Pan
- Heat source
- Tape
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- Procedure:
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- 1) Crush 20 aspirin tablets in a glass container. Add 1 teaspoon of water
- and work into a paste.
- 2) Add approximately 1/3 to 1/2 cup of alcohol (100 millilitres) to the
- aspirin paste; stir while pouring.
- 3) Filter the alcohol-aspirin solution through a paper towel into another
- glass container. Discard the solid left in the paper towel.
- 4) Pour the filtered solution into a glass or ceramic dish.
- 5) Evaporate the alcohol and water from the solution by placing the dish
- into a pan of hot water. White powder will remain in the dish after
- evaporation.
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- NOTE: The water in the pan should be at hot bath temperature, not boiling,
- approx. 160 to 180 degress farenheit. It should not burn the hands.
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- 6) Pour 1/3 cup (80 millilitres) of concentrated sulfuric acid into a
- canning jar. Add the white powder to the sulfuric acid.
- 7) Heat canning jar of sulfuric acid in a pan of simmering hot water bath
- for 15 minutes; then remove jar from the bath. Solution will turn to a
- yellow-orange color.
- 8) Add 3 level teaspoons (15 grams) of potassium nitrate in three portions
- to the yellow-orange solution; stir vigorously during additions. Solution
- will turn red, then back to a yellow-orange color.
- 9) Allow the solution to cool to ambient room temperature while stirring
- occasionally.
- 10) Slowly pour the solution, while stirring, into 1-1/4 cup (300
- millilitres) of cold water and allow to cool.
- 11) Filter the solution through a paper towel into a glass container. Light
- yellow particles will collect on the paper towel.
- 12) Wash the light yellow particles with 2 tablespoons (25 millilitres) of
- water. Discard the waste liquid in the container.
- 13) Place articles in ceramic dish and set in a hot water bath, as in step
- 5, for 2 hours.
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