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- How to Make Nitroglycerin
- By: Karl Marx
-
- CH2ONO2
- ! 3/2 N2 + 3 CO2
- CHONO2 ----------> +
- ! Ignition 5/2 H2O + 1/4 O2
- CH2ONO2
-
- (How Nitro explodes--note that the byproducts are nothing but
- nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water and oxygen)
-
- Nitroglycerin [heretofore Nitro] is a very powerful high-
- explosive. I am not sure who invented it but he probably didn't-- the
- first person to make it probably blew himself up and his freind got
- the info off his notes. Well anyway, the next best thing to Nitro is
- TNT which is ten times harder to make but also ten times safer to
- make. If you can't use common sense then dont even TRY
- to make this stuff--a few drops can be lethal under certain
- circumstances.
-
-
- To make Nitro:
- == ==== ======
-
- Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid (for best results it should have
- a specific gravity of 50 degrees Baume') with 200 parts sulphuric
- acid. This is going to be HOT at first--it won't splatter if you pour
- the nitric INTO the sulphuric but don't try it the other way around.
- The acid solutions together can disolve flesh in a matter of seconds
- so take the proper measures for God's sake!!! When cool, add 38 parts
- glycerine as slowly as possible. Let it trickle down the sides of the
- container into the acids or it won't mix thourily and the reaction
- could go to fast--which causes enough heat to ignite the stuff. Stir
- with a **GLASS** rod for 15 seconds or so then CARFULLY pour it into
- 20 times it's *VOLUME* of water. It will visibly precipitate
- immediatly. there will be twice as much Nitro as you used glycerin and
- it is easy to separate. Mix it with baking soda as soon as you have
- separated it-- this helps it not to go off spontainously.
-
-
- NOTES: Parts are by weight and the Baume' scale of spicific gravity
- can be found in most chem. books. You ca get fuming nitric and
- sulfuric acids wherever good chemicals or fertilizers are sold. It is
- positivly *STUPID* to make more than 200 grams of Nitro at a time.
- When mixing the stuff wear goggles, gloves, etc. When I first made
- the stuff I had the honor of having it go off by itself (I added too
- much glycerine at a time.) I was across the room at the time, but I
- felt the impact--so did the table it was on as well as the window it
- was next to--they were both smashed by only 25 grams in an open bowl.
- Oh, yes, glycerine you can get at any pharmacy and you need an adult
- signature for the acids. Any bump can make Nitro go off if you don't
- add the bicarbonate of (baking) soda--but even with that, if it gets
- old I wouldn't play catch with it.
-
- Once you have made the Nitro and saturated it with Bicarb. you
- can make a really powerful explosive that won't go off by itself by
- simply mixing it with as much cotton as you can and then saturating
- that with molten ((parifine--just enough to make it sealed and hard.
- Typically, use the same amounts (by weight) of each Nitro, cotton and
- parifine. This, when wrapped in newspaper, was once known as "Norbin
- & Ohlsson's Patent Dynamite," but that was back in 1896.
-
- eof