Posted on 07/24/2004 6:48:32 PM PDT by NCjim
It produces volumous clouds of purple smoke.
James Herriot ran into it when he started into his veterinary practice.
:^)
ould someone figure out a way to keep liberals and druggies off of FR ?
neat-o! I might want to show that to my sister's brood.
with that in mind: is the smoke at all hazardous?
we have the Almighty Mods, the VKS, and RKBA for that.
Won't real skunks soon overrun the city?
Dunno.
But finding resublimed iodine crystals is kinda hard these days.
That and people tend to get nervous when you start asking for stuff.
Like aluminum powder, and potassium chloride.
getting aluminum powder shouldn't be too difficult - contact an industrial supply house selling materials for sintering or powdered metallurgy. If you are thinking of making Thermite - you will need an equal volume of ferrous-oxide (Fe2O3, not Fe3O4) which you can make easily enough by rusting common iron filings.
I have wondered for a while about solid rocket propellants - if one substituted ammonium nitrate for the Potassium nitrate in the old blackpowder formula, what effect would that have on performance?
I would think you could distill medicinal Iodine solutions to get your crystalline Iodine.
if you are talking Boston Mass, then: yes
let me guess - you made that potassium tri-iodide stuff back in high-school, din't'cha?
Boston Mass has a plague of skunk scent descending upon it, even as we speak.
!!!
Ammonium nitrate is the base of what the propellant was for my unit's howitzer ammo.
Got a nice bright yellow flame to it.
Not sure what the performance would be, but the nozzle had better be able to withstand the heat.
When we burned the spare powder bags, you could feel the heat while standing 100 feet back.
Can't make rocket propellant without getting people suspicious these days.
The days of our misspent youth are long over.
(And the guys who the movie "October Sky" is based on wouldn't be able to do what they did.)
Haven't tried it with success.
Got a sludgy plastic-like goo instead.
Well, had a small bag of potassium nitrate and some potassium chloride.
Mixed that with some jelled diesel fuel to make a nice camp fire starter.
(..wasn't as impressive as I'd hoped.)
Also did teh stupid thing of dissolving styrofoam in kerosene until the kerosene was like plastic.
Also made a nice campfire helper.
Don't recall offhand if I did anything more interesting with the potassium chloride.
I just remember having lots one day and then not having much to spit at.
Tried to do water electrolosis to extract hydrogen and oxygen.
Blew my electrolosis stand apart instead.
yeah, it's a shame.
blowin' stuff up (under controlled conditions) used to be considered "good clean male fun" and "educational"
Now...
Man, I hate terrorists.
This land used to be a whole lot freer, and a hella more fun.
I have some 90% isopropyl alcohol.
I'm gonna dissolve the potassium chloride if I find it in teh 90% stuff, and make the black powder gel.
So that when and if I find a terroist, I can stuff it down his throat and make him fly.
AFTER coating him with skunk gel and strapping him to a towed dolly..
Wouldn't it be lovely to say fill some water ballons and go calling on the demonstrators at the NY convention....
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