Utah beauty queen arrested for throwing bombs from car

Newsfix Now ^ | 8/9/2013

[Lera]

Putting bits of aluminum foil and a acid in a plastic bottle to produce a gas is not making a bomb.

Honestly I do not know a kid I grew up with that did try making one of these things at least once .

I am glad I grew up when I did an not now.
We made worse things in our chemistry classes .

[JCBreckenridge]

Oh my goodness. My kryptonite!

[Repeal The 17th]

You said “...drain opener...”, which is NaOH.

[RC one]

whatever.

[circlecity]

Oh come on, is there anyone who hasn’t at least thrown a couple of fire bombs from the back seat of a Camero? Gee, that’s just growing up out here in Crackerville.

[Calvin Locke]

Or a brain. Maybe she read "Steal This Book"?

That's not to say she brainy enough to take that information/knowledge and use it wisely, if to use it at all.

[cynwoody]

Those are fake!

Allegedly, they cost $5200.

[Revolting cat!]

Those are fake!

You bet, I'd recognize them from a mile out! (Chances are they're made by my company.)

[Rodamala]

Actually the reaction uses NaOH... I used it as a kid to generate hydrogen in lagre quanties... for filling weather balloons.

[RC one]

I understand that Hydrogen may be liberated with NaOH and aluminum. The reaction typically involves HCl from the works toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil pellets. Battery acid also works and magnesium works in place of aluminum but much faster.

[Born to Conserve]

So, was it bad of me to crush up the Estes rocket motors I got for Christmas when I was eight, and fill the glass Testors paint bottles with the powder, and stick the rocket fuses through a hole in the lid? I mean hypothetically, was it bad? If it was then, hypothetically, every kid in the neighbor hood was bad, bad, bad.

[Clinging Bitterly]

All paint. Well, paint and silicone.

I actually prefer the unpainted look, which would look nice with a smile.