When I was fourteen, I built a rocket using a heat melted mixture of potassium nitrate and sugar for fuel. I found out the hard way that such a mixture is explosive under pressure, so you might say I made a bomb when I was fourteen.
Ditto. Sugar-nitrate - great stuff. I'd make it in 2 lb. batches on the kitchen stove (electric).
I also made a AM radio transmitter from scratch. Had a 6L6 final.
For seventh grade science class, I built a plaster of Paris volcano. It had about 3 pounds of saltpeter, sulfur and sugar. I set it off in the grass between the science wing and the cafeteria.
The smoke full of sulfur dioxide filled the cafeteria through all the open windows during a lunch period. Then the wind changed and gassed the crowd from the school office.
I got an A for gassing the school.
It seems you and I walked in the same footprints of fire.
lol in my post i didn’t have the money to actually buy materials. if i would have had the money, killed my family
You should have uses potassium chlorate and sugar.
You mix them in aqueous solution, and super-concentrate the mix, then pour it into a tube to set up as it cools.
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When I was 15 I designed and built a jet wing aircraft with a span of about four feet. I went to the drug store to get the rocket fuel of Potassium salts and some sulfur. However when I asked to buy some high concentration rubbing alcohol the pharmacy person asked why I wanted these and other chemicals. I told him what I was intending to do and even had made a the launch pad. I was told to go to another store and see if they would complete my shopping list. This turned me from that project to another one which used powder from fire crackers. Other matters stopped me from going further.
Fourteen was a good year for illicitly obtained combustible chemicals. We almost burned down my friend's garage, but we had fun.