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To: null and void

OK ...

First off, Aluminum Powder plus lacquer is called “rocket fuel”.

Secondly, aluminum powder in intimate mixture with iron oxide powder is a form of thermite.

I’m quite sure that the dopant qualified as rocket fuel. You’ll have to do a little more work to show that the Al powder and the Fe2O3 powder were in sufficiently intimate mixture to have a thermite reaction.

I’m mildly curious as to whether you personally have ever made and used thermite. I have.


43 posted on 04/21/2023 1:41:14 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
I’m mildly curious as to whether you personally have ever made and used thermite. I have.

Napalm and sticky napalm, small batches, just to do it as a yute, not thermite. I had magnesium, but no barium peroxide.

BTW, kerosene and Palmolive doesn't burn worth a damn, but it makes a great hand cleaner.

45 posted on 04/21/2023 1:53:57 PM PDT by null and void (Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-com)
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