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Article #440Re: Low yeild explosives and "snappers"
From: Howard A. Landman
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1987 17:30
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1987 17:30
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in article <209@picuxa.UUCP<, gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) says:
<
< When I was in college, I used to make a pretty simple explosive using
< ammonium hydroxide, and iodine (I think it was ammonium tri-iodide).
In article <531@nonvon.UUCP< apn@nonvon.UUCP (root) writes:
<The commercial snappers... are based on silver fulminate and sand.
<Cheap actually... Another few favorite combinations are
<from arsenic trioxide/sulfides or ( origins from india )
<red-P and KClO3 or PbN3 or
One more that no one mentioned is silver acetylide. Packs quite a wallop
and doesn't leave that iodine stain or any toxic residue. Why bother with
arsenic and lead?
--
Howard A. Landman
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!ctnews!pyramid!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: Low yeild explosives and "snappers" Message-ID: <766@cpocd2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 13:30:40 EDT Article-I.D.: cpocd2.766 Posted: Wed Jul 1 13:30:40 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jul-87 05:03:32 EDT References: <209@picuxa.UUCP< <531@nonvon.UUCP< Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ Lines: 20