A few quite good mixtures for low order explosives, does not include porpotions.
Black powder revolutionized the art and practice of war after it was invented by the Chinese over 1000 years ago. It remained the basic gun charge right up until World War II and it is still used in Black powder rifles, muskets, and cannons, not to mention terrorists use it in pipe bombs in the middle east!
Black powder can be prepared in a simple, safe manner. It may be used as blasting or gun powder.
How to make various fireworks like stars, roman candles, rockets and others.
BLACK POWDER CAN BE PREPARED IN A SIMPLE, SAFE MANNER. IT MAY BE USED AS BLASTING OR GUN POWDER.
How to make some lesser known low order powders, including different ratios for different results.
Here are a few basic precautions to take if you’re crazy enough to produce “your own flash powder and the instructions.
First made by the Chinese for use in fireworks, black powder was first “used in weapons and explosives in the 12th century. It is very simple to “make, but it is not very powerful or safe.
I used to make nitrocellulose, though. It was not guncotton grade, because I “didn’t have oleum (H2SO4 with dissolved SO3); nevertheless it worked.
Nitrocellulose is usually called “gunpowder” or “guncotton”. It is more “stable than black powder, and it produces a much greater volume of hot gas. It “also burns much faster than black powder when it is in a confined space.
This is a rough and by no means full description of the making of a “simple, quick but yet interesting piece of fireworks
This file has two parts… the first is predominantly about “KClO4, and the second about KClO3. Both were taken from the “net, original sources unknown.
Mix solid Nitric Iodine with househould ammonia. Wait overnight and “then pour off the liquid. You will be left with a muddy substance. Let “this dry till it hardens. Now throw it at something!!!!
Probably the most important explosive “compound in use today is TNT “(trinitrotoluene). This and other very “similar types of high explosives ar all “used by the military, because of their “fantastic power- about 2.25 millions “pounds per square inch, and there “great stability. TNT also has the “great advantage of being able to be “melted at 82 degrees F., so that it “can be poured into shells, mortars, “or any other projectiles.
This is sort of a mild explosive, but it can be quite dangerous in “large quantities. To make touch explosive (such as that found in a “snap-n-pop, but more powerful), use this recipe:
I used to make nitrocellulose, though. It was not guncotton grade, because I didn’t have oleum (H2SO4 with dissolved SO3); nevertheless it worked.
Place 5 pints of alcohol in a bucket. In another bucket, put 3 cups “of granulated potassium nitrate, 2 cups powdered wood charcoal, and “1/2 cup of powdered sulfur into the bucket.
Composite propellants are solid rocket fuels that are composed of separate “fuels and oxidizers mixed together in one homogenous mass. This propellant “is then either molded into a grain to be inserted in an engine or cast in an “engine casing and left to harden. The fuels and oxidizers taken separately “are generally unreactive. Composite propellants are used in a number of “engines.
AP was developed in the late 1880s as a replacement for black powder. It “is an intimate mixture of 85 percent ammonium nitrate and 15 percent char- “coal. It was used by Germany and Austria as an artillery propellant until “nitrocellulose-based powders became commonly available. It was extremly “powerful, being on a par with double-based powders containing 30 percent “nitroglycerine, and was virtually smokeless and flashless.
Black powder can be prepared in a simple, safe manner. “It may be used as blasting or gun powder.
