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Trevor Calder <trevorREMOVE@THISiinet.net.au> wrote in
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> Rod Speed wrote
>> Trevor Calder <trevorREMOVE@THISiinet.net.au> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote

>>>> Nothing remotely resembling anything like 'bomb recipes' at all.

>>> Hmm......I suppose the bit where it says to mix 94%
>>> ammonium nitrate with 6% no. 2 fuel oil isn't a recipe then?

>> That wont make a bomb boy. There's just a tiny
>> problem with how you get that mixture to go bang.

> Not at all

Fraid so.

> - why on the very same page, there's a recipe for gunpowder.

Soorree, gunpowder wont make that mixture go bang.
The only thing that will go bang is the gunpowder.

> And, as I'm sure you know, gunpowder can be set off with a match.

Pity about the ammonium nitrate/fuel oil mix
which wont go bang even if you use gunpowder.

>> There's a damned good reason why that particular mixture is so extensively used.

> Yep. It's easy to make. And cheap too.

That aint the main reason. The main reason is that it
takes a lot to make it go bang, so its very very safe.

>> Just those two is very difficult to make go bang unless you have whats necessary.

> No it ain't, boy.

Not a clue to your name. Look it up in any mining text.