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Phobos
A New Voice 		posted December 13, 1999 03:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Phobos   Click Here to Email Phobos     
all the nitrate explosives on megas page need 90% or stronger HNO3. but it is not possible for me to get it that srong, and i cant affort buying a distilation apparatus. i have tried NG and TNT, ans it didnt work, but are there any explosives out there, which work with the diluted acid?

Thanks very much,
PhoBoS


HMTD Factory
Frequent Poster 		posted December 13, 1999 07:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HMTD Factory     
Urea Nitrate. check out old thread.

HMTD Factory
Frequent Poster 		posted December 13, 1999 08:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HMTD Factory     
Or use weak HNO3 to make NaNO3, then use NaNO3 and H2SO4 to make pure HNO3.

Fulminates use weak nitric acid and ethanol to make too, try copper fulminate, less poison.

fart
unregistered 		posted December 13, 1999 08:27 PM           
with weaker nitric use more sulfuric to soak up the extra water present.

1vol 67% nitric and 5 vol 95% sulfuric will nitrate glycerine as well as stronger acids.

This is wasteful of sulfuric, but if you got it this will work.

If both are scarce best to use sulfuric to make strong nitric and then use both strong sulfuric and strong nitric to nitrate things.

Keep in mind that the waste acid left over after you nitrate soluble organics like glycerine is contaminated with that organic, and if you let the warm up to room temp, they will "go" eventually unless diluted greatly with water. They usually just boil up without fire, and I have not heard of them exploding, but all things are possible to a cursed chemist.

HMTD Factory
Frequent Poster 		posted December 13, 1999 11:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for HMTD Factory     
And don't pour water into H2SO4, pour H2SO4
into water instead, or it will splash.

rolf nixon
Frequent Poster 		posted December 14, 1999 09:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for rolf nixon     
yah and if you can find some m-creasol
you can make trinitro-m-creasol wich is
almost as powerfull than TNT.

Rolf

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