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To: mylife
Homeland Security would have gone slap crazy about the gang I grew up with, we did some serious chemistry experiments. My high school chemistry teacher said that if there was a market for things that smelled bad and made loud noises I would be rich, LOL. I had to resist the temptation to tell my grandson a lot of things that would get him in trouble now.

Oxidizers are wonderful things, fulminating compounds are even better!

47 posted on 07/04/2010 4:45:22 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I know it..

We used to make this Ammonium Iodide compound.

Its perfectly stable when wet as in a paste, but the stuff is so unstable when dried out that a fly landing on it will set it off.

They taught us how to make it in high school

You put a dab of that under the toilet seat lid LoL

Or we’d put it on the inside of a kitchen cabinet door and leave it open. Some one would slap the door closed and “bang” it would fly back open!


48 posted on 07/04/2010 4:51:59 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Watch the film October Sky for a glimpse of the crew I ran around with.

Yes I still hang out with ten and one of them has a wife that works for NASA


49 posted on 07/04/2010 4:54:23 PM PDT by mylife (wATCH THE FILM oCTOBE)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnX6yU8PJHE


50 posted on 07/04/2010 4:55:40 PM PDT by mylife (wATCH THE FILM oCTOBE)
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