posted December 24, 1999 04:51 AM            

I went through the past posts, and I saw
a lot of info regarding Sodium Chlorate.
I do have some questions, if you guys could
help me out, I would much appreciate it:

1. Exactly how stable is Sodium Chlorate to
shock and friction? Would dropping it or
crushing it risk detonation?

2. I have heard that adding Al powder would
increase its power upon detonation. I
have seen the ratio 3 SC to 1 Al. In
addition, I have also came across 3 SC to 2 Sugar. Are these really that helpful? If so, do these create a more sensitive explosive (as far as friction and shock goes)?

3. Exactly what do the powdered Al and sugar
contribute to the explosive? They
obviously don't liberate Oxygen... I am
assuming that the Al would be more
powerful...

posted December 24, 1999 09:14 AM         

2.Using aluminum powder and suger is quite common in increasing explosive performances.
aluminum is even used to make already strong
high explosive more powerful, sugar is good
for pyrotechnics and common explosive mixture

3.We need 2 things to make an explosive: oxygen, and things can burn in oxygen.
Here SC gives oxygen when heated, then Al or
suger burns in oxygen. Al burns with a lot
of heat, and cause hot air to become hotter,
expand more, more destructive. Sugar react
with oxygen at relatively low temperature, so
the need of heat is little, then it starts
playing with oxygen itself. So Al makes it hot and sugar gives it crispy reaction.

Mixture explosives including this are not very shock/friction sensitive, but they all respond to sparks, electricity sparks, and heat.

posted December 24, 1999 10:09 AM            

Take a pinch of chlorate/sugar, take a piece a fine sandpaper glued to a board, and pull it fast across concrete. POOF! Friction sensitive.

Now it's nowhere near as sensitive as Acetone Peroxide, but you don't want to throw it around like a brick either.

And pure chlorate IS explosive with a detonator, no fuel needed.

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posted December 25, 1999 01:48 PM         

Well NaClO3 gives out heat when decomposed,
and so do KClO3,and Na+ and K+ burn into NaCl
and KCl but they are not listed as explosives, well it burns only once with chlorine atom, not reacting with Os', three Os' wasted, if you said NH4ClO3 is an explosive then I admit that 'cuz NH4+ don't form into NH4Cl instead burning into N2 and H2O and HCl, that's a real explosive, and it's more correct because NH4+ burned with oxygen, that's the concept of common explosives, you oughtta have an oxidizer, mixed with some fuel(within the molecule this case) that react quickly with oxygen.