NITROGLYCERINE
NITROGLYCERINE
Nitroglycerine is one of the most sensitive explosives, if it is not the
most sensitive.
Although it is possible to make it safely, it is difficult.
Many a young anarchist has been
killed or seriously injured while trying to
make the stuff. When Nobel’s factories make it,
many people were killed by
the all-to-frequent factory explosions. Usually, as soon as it is
made, it is
converted into a safer substance, such as dynamite. An idiot who attempts to
make nitroglycerine would use the following procedure:
MATERIAL EQUIPMENT
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distilled water eye-dropper
table salt 100 ml
beaker
sodium bicarbonate 200-300 ml beakers (2)
concentrated nitric ice
bath container
acid (13 ml) ( a plastic bucket serves well )
concentrated
sulfuric centigrade thermometer
acid (39 ml)
glycerine blue litmus paper
1) Place 150 ml of distilled water into one of the 200-300 ml beakers.
2)
In the other 200-300 ml beaker, place 150 ml of distilled water and about
a spoonful of sodium
bicarbonate, and stir them until the sodium
bicarbonate dissolves. Do not put so much sodium
bicarbonate in the water
so that some remains undissolved.
3) Create an ice bath
by half filling the ice bath container with ice, and
adding table salt. This will cause the
ice to melt, lowering the overall
temperature.
4) Place the 100 ml beaker into
the ice bath, and pour the 13 ml of
concentrated nitric acid into the 100 ml beaker. Be sure
that the beaker
will not spill into the ice bath, and that the ice bath will not overflow
large enough ice
bath container to add more ice. Bring the temperature of
the acid down to about 20 degrees
centigrade or less.
5) When the nitric acid is as cold as stated above, slowly and
carefully add
the 39 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid to the nitric acid. Mix the two
acids together, and cool the mixed acids to 10 degrees centigrade. It is a
good idea to start
another ice bath to do this.
6) With the eyedropper, slowly put the glycerine into the
mixed acids, one
drop at a time. Hold the thermometer along the top of the mixture where
the mixed acids and glycerine meet.
DO NOT ALLOW THE TEMPERATURE TO GET ABOVE 30
DEGREES CENTIGRADE; IF
THE TEMPERATURE RISES ABOVE THIS TEMPERATURE, WATCH OUT !!
The glycerine will start to nitrate immediately, and the temperature will
immediately begin to
rise. Add glycerine until there is a thin layer of
glycerine on top of the mixed acids. It is
always safest to make any
explosive in small quantities.
7) Stir the mixed acids
and glycerine for the first ten minutes of nitration,
adding ice and salt to the ice bath to
keep the temperature of the solution
in the 100 ml beaker well below 30 degrees centigrade.
Usually, the
nitroglycerine will form on the top of the mixed acid solution, and the
concentrated sulfuric acid will absorb the water produced by the reaction.
When the
reaction is over, and when the nitroglycerine is well below 30
degrees centigrade, slowly and
carefully pour the solution of
nitroglycerine and mixed acid into the distilled water in the
beaker in
step 1. The nitroglycerine should settle to the bottom of the beaker, and
the
water-acid solution on top can be poured off and disposed of. Drain as
much of the acid- water
solution as possible without disturbing the
nitroglycerine.
9) Carefully remove
the nitroglycerine with a clean eye-dropper, and place it
into the beaker in step 2. The
sodium bicarbonate solution will eliminate
much of the acid, which will make the
nitroglycerine more stable, and less
likely to explode for no reason, which it can do. Test
the nitroglycerine
with the litmus paper until the litmus stays blue. Repeat this step if
10) When the
nitroglycerine is as acid-free as possible, store it in a clean
container in a safe place. The
best place to store nitroglycerine is far
away from anything living, or from anything of any
value. Nitroglycerine
can explode for no apparent reason, even if it is stored in a secure
cool
place.
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