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- *****************HOW TO MAKE GUN-COTTON**********************
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- If only a small quantity is required---Mix 4 1/4 oz of pure dry
- Potassium Nitrate with 30 fl.dr of Sulphuric acid specific gravity
- 1.845 ish and stir into this mixture 120 grms of pure cotton.
- (The adding of Potassium Nitrate straight to the Sulphuric acid
- saves you having to buy the Nitric acid , which can be a bit of a
- pain sometimes).
- As soon as saturation is complete,in about a minute,throw the cotton
- into a large container of water under the tap and leave the tap on,
- so that all the acid is washed out...THAT MEANS ALL..Test the water
- with Litmus paper to be sure.If the cotton is left slightly acidic
- it will explode at some later date;all by its self wouldn,t that be
- fun.!!!!
- Then squeeze it out into a towel till it feels quite dry and then
- finally dry it at about 180 F.
- Gun-Cotton differs widely from Gun-Powder in its properties requiring
- a much lower temperature for its ignition about 136 F G-P about 250 F
- Gun-Cotton burns so fast in the open that you could put some on your
- hand and light it , you wouldn,t feel a thing !!
- It needs to be confined in a strong case if your fuse is a normal
- Black-Powder one but if you use a detonator ie/a Fulminate it will
- explode on its own.
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- Rapid as this combustion is,however,it occupies an appeciable time,
- as may be seen by igniting a train of loose gun-cotton,which takes
- several seconds to burn a few feet,giving at the same time a large
- flame. If gun-cotton be confined at the moment of ignition this flame
- is forced back into the mass.and by rapidly heating it brings it to
- the point at which combustion passes into explosion.Prior to 1868
- it was always confined in strong cases,but in that year someone
- discovered that when a detonating fuse was exploded in contact with
- compressed gun-cotton,the unconfined mass at once exploded with
- ENORMOUS violence,and this discovery opened up an entirly new ball-
- game.
- The products of the explosion are :- Carbon Dioxide
- Carbon Monoxide
- Hydrogen
- Nitrogen
- Methane
- It can be detonated buy hitting with a hammer on an anvil but only
- the portion under the hammer will explode with a loud report.
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- To recap,do make sure that all the acid is washed out..
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- and lets be careful out there...........IVAN
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