\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/ /=\=/ How to Make and use \=/=\ \=/=\ Nitroglycerin /=\=/ /=\=/ Edited by Irate Pirate \=/=\ \=/=\ Computer Pirates of Utah /=\=/ /=\=/ Phone: (801)-264-8201 /=\=/ /=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\ Nitroglycerin is a very powerful high explosive. I am not sure who invented it but he probably didn't -- the first person to make it probably blew himself up and his friend got the info off his notes. Well anyway, the next best thing to Nitro is TNT which is ten times harder to make but also ten times safer to make. If you can't use it then don't even TRY to make this stuff!!! To Make Nitro: Mix 100 parts fuming nitric acid (for best results it should have a specific gravity of 50 degrees Baume') with 200 parts sulphuric acid. This is going to be HOT at first -- it won't splatter if you pour the nitric INTO the sulphuric but don't try it the other way around. The acid solutions together can disolve flesh in a matter of seconds so take the proper measures for God's sake!!! When cool, add 38 parts glycerine as slowly as possible. Let it trickle down the sides of the container into the acids or it won't mix thouroughly and the reaction could go to fast -- which causes enough heat to ignite the stuff. Stir with a **GLASS** rod for 15 seconds or so then CAREFULLY pour it into 20 time it's volume of water. It will visibly precipitate immediately. There will be twice as much Nitro as you used glycerin and it is easy to separate. Mix it with baking soda as soon as you have separated it -- this helps it not to go off spontainiously. NOTES: Parts are by weight and the Baume' scale of specific gravity can be found in most chem. books. You can get fuming nitric and sulfuric acid wherever good chemicals or fertilizers are sold. It is positively *STUPID* to make more than 200 grams of Nitro at a time. When mixing the stuff wear goggles, gloves, etc. When I first made the stuff I had the honor of having it go off by itself (I added too much glycerine at the time.) I was across the room at the time, but I felt the impact -- so did the table it was on as well as the window it was next to --- they were both smashed by only 25 grams in an open bowl.) Oh, yes, glycerine you can get at any pharmacy and you need no adult signature for the acids. Any bump can make Nitro go off if you don't add the bicarbonate (baking soda) -- but even with that, if it gets old I wouldn't play catch with it. Once you have made the Nitro and saturated it with Bicarb. you can make a really powerful explosive that won't go off by itself by simply mixing it with as much cotton as you can and then saturating that with molten (parifine -- just enought to make it sealed and hard.) Typically use the same amounts (by weight) of each Nitro, cotton and parifine. This, when wrapped in newspaper, was once know as "Norbin & Ohlsson's Patent Dynamite," but that was back in 1896. **Carefully** mix equal amounts of nitric acid and sulphuric acid togther in a graduated cylinder or other tall, thin container. Slowly add ordinary glycerin a stir very lightly. Wait a while, and pour off the liquid on top. This liquind is nitroglycerine, and should be handeled with caution. Washing it with sodium carbonate will improve the purity. As for the use of what you just made let me know...... /=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\=/=\ ---------------------------------------