posted November 04, 1999 07:05 PM         

Potassium chloride as muriate of potash $5 per 50# farm coop store.

Calcium nitrate about 6$ a 50# bag, same places

sodium nitrate as nitrate of soda about $5 a 50# bag same places.

Calcium chloride about 10$ a 100 # bag at tractor tire filling places.

85% phosphoric acid at small chem supply stores used diluted to
30% to change rust to iron phosphate which won't rust any further.

50% hydrogen peroxide at ma pa type chem supply stores, used to
sterilize milk containers before milk is put in them. About $10
a gallon.

27% sulfuric acid high purity as 1.25 sp gr battery electrolyte for
dry charged batteries. about $3 a gallon in 3 or 5 gallon jugs.
Boil 3 gallons till it smokes to get about a gallon of 100% stuff.

Urea ( pure) at fertilizer stores. About $10 a 50# bag.

31% hydrochloric acid at swimming pool supply and bulk cement plants for
about $4 a gallon.

calcium hypochlorite (nearly pure) at swimming pool supply houses at about a
dollar a pound. Its about 60 % compared to chlorox at 5.6%

11% sodium hypochlorite at janitor supply houses.(double strength chlorox)

Please add your sources to the thread to help budding chemists in this suppressive environment.

FYI when a kid before WWII, living in a mining town, we couldn't get fireworks but could buy #6 fuse caps at $1.50 a box of 100, and fuse at 1$ a 50 ft roll. We used those as our fireworks. We played with yellow phosphorus, metallic sodium and potassium, made black powder, etc using five fingered school chemicals, and adults tolerated our blasting noises as kids just larning stuff. How thing have changed...