The Ultimate Smoke Bomb

The Ultimate Smoke Bomb File
By
Sir Francis Drake

INTRODUCTION
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There are many philes on smoke bombs, most of them are OK and some of them
are wrong.
Hopefully this file will correctly cover everything…

USES OF SMOKE BOMBS

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Smoke Bombs have an infinite amount of uses, some include:

1. "Pranks" such as lighting them in classrooms.
2. For cover, a pound or so
of a smoke bomb in an ally couldn’t be see through by anyone chasin
3. Siginalling
4.
Creating "confusion and chaos"
3. For thousands of other ideas, read The Stainless
Steel Rat books by Harry
Harrison for many more but impractical ideas.

THE
ORIGINAL SMOKE BOMB RECIPIE
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OK, this isn’t
"THE" original but it was the first that got
excesivily popularized…
/> FROM "STEAL THIS BOOK" BY ABBIE HOFFMAN

"Sometimes it becomes
strategically correct to confuse the opposition
and provide a smoke screen to aid an escape.
A real home-made smoke
bomb can be made by combining 4 parts sugar to 6 parts saltpeter /> [Potassium Nitrate -Editor's note] (available at all chemical
supply stores). This mixture
must then be heated over a very low
flame. It will blend into a plastic substance. When this
starts
to gel, remove from heat and allow the plastic to cool. Embed a few
wooden
match heads into the mass while it’s still pliable and attach
a fuse."

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE W THIS RECIPIE
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Do the
cooking with a kitchen oven, candles DO NOT work at all,
and camping stoves are better but
hazardous (as Spartacus and
The Data Controller will testify). Filmcans work, but arn’t the

best because of the plastic and the small size. The best
container seems to be small
glass jars. Fuses are probably the
hardest part, if you can use bought fuses. If not the best
is to
pour sterno over the top and light it, this will have an
unpredictable time
delay.

COLORED SMOKE BOMBS
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Allthough it has
been claimed that adding food coloring to the above
would change its color here are the
ingredients for "real" colored
smoke bombs…

BLACK SMOKE RECEPIES

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Ingredient Percentage

Magnesium powder 19

Hexachloroethane 60
Napthalene 21

Magnesium powder 20

Hexachloroethane 60
Napthalene 20

Hexachloroethane 55.8
Alpha Naphol 14

Athracene 4.6
Aluminum powder 9.3
Smokeless powder 14
Naphthalene 2.3

Black powder FFF 50
Potassium nitrate 10
Coal tar 20
Powdered
charcoal 15
Paraffin 5

WHITE SMOKE RECIPIES
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Potassium chlorate 44
Sulfur flour 15
Zinc dust 40
Sodium bicarbonate 1

Zinc dust 66.37
Hexachloroethane 33.33

Zinc dust 28
Zinc
oxide 22
Hexachloroethane 50

YELLOW SMOKE RECIPIES
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Potassium chlorate 25
Paranitraniline 50
Lactrose 25

Potassium chlorate 30
Naphthalene azodimethyl anline50
Powdered sugar 20

Potassium chlorate 21.4
Naphthalene azodimethyl anline2.7
Auramine 38
Sodium
biocarbonate 28.5
Sulfur flour 9.4

GREEN SMOKE RECIPIE

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Potassium nitrate 20
Red arsenic 20
Sulfur flour 20

Antimony sulfide 20
Black powder FFF 20

RED SMOKE RECIPIE

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Potassium chlorate 20
Lactose 20
Paranitraniline red
60

Potassium chlorate 26
Diethylaminorosindone 48
Powdered sugar 26 />
Potassium chlorate 27.4
Methylaminoanthraquinone 42.5
Sodium bicarbonate
19.5
Sulfur flour 10.6

Potassium pechlorate 25
Antimony sulfide 20 /> Rhodamine red 50
Dextrin 5

WHERE TO GET CHEMICALS

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While some of these chemicals are common and can be found in a
kitchen
many are fairly rare (when was the last time you heard of …….
"methylaminoanthraquinone"?). Theplace to get them is
obviously a Chemical Suppy
place. They can be found in your phone
book fairly easily. When ordering, the best way is in
the mail C.O.D.
However, some chemicals can’t be mailed though U.S. mail and therefore

will be mailed through U.P.S or wehatever which will cost more
and may not permit C.O.D. Good
Luck!

• Formulas for different-colored smoke screens
• Formulas for different-colored smoke screens
• Smoke-A Rainbow Of Color
• ASSORTED EXPLOSIVES INFORMATION
• SMOKE FORMULAS