[dljordan]

"Do they still use mercury fulminate in the detonators?"

I don't really know. It's been years since I worked with explosives and I suppose those were the ones I used. There are others you can use with improvised explosives but they are VERY unstable, like blow your fingers off unstable.

[KylaStarr]

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[BobS]

"There are others you can use with improvised explosives but they are VERY unstable, like blow your fingers off unstable."

I am not going to give recipies for explosives on a public forum like this. I will just suggest an idiot at 15 with an interest in chemistry can create hydrazine(rocket fuel) in a toilet bowl. You test it by smoking a cigarette on top of it. Ammonia is one ingredient. Guess the other.