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Jennifer Cross <jcrossNOTTHIS@ecel.uwa.edu.au> wrote
in message news:382BBC5C.36D62A14@ecel.uwa.edu.au...
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote

>> Nothing remotely resembling any thing like 'bomb recipes' at all.

> umm there is if that is what you are looking for...

Nope.

> I could assemble explosive mixtures and detonating
> systems based on the info from this page...

Doesnt qualify as a 'bomb recipe' except at the
crudest level with black powder and thats widely
available all over the place. And the ingredients aint.

> but then I'm an engineer :)

I made plenty of bombs as a kid, before the net was even invented.

>> Match-head ignition, very popular in Europe, is used less widely
>> in the United States. The ignition device consists of a piece of
>> cardboard with a thin sheet of metal glued to each side. A bridge
>> wire is soldered to  these sheets, around the end of the cardboard,
>> and this part of the assembly is dipped in a slurry of ignition mixture,
>> usually based on copper acetylide. After drying, the match head is
>> given a protective coating and is then soldered to the leg wires.

> sounds a lot like a "recipe" to me...  certainly it's enough to build one

Crap. There is just a tiny problem with whats being ignited by
that. None of the stuff thats covered that is available to kids
can be ignited by that except black powder. Kids have been
doing that level of 'bomb' since before the net was even invented.

It isnt even that easy to get the ingredients for black powder unless
you know where to get it and that article certainly doesnt say.

> Jennifer (who has books lots better than this at the uni anyway -

And in most decent public librays, not just unis.

> check out "lab hazards" sometime :)

I came close to disposing of the school chem lab during the holidays as a kid
when my mate whose mum was the chem teacher's keys were 'borrowed' |-)