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EXPLOSIVES
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Low explosive are good for making a loud bang, or
to scare the living
daylight out of some poor person or even for making booby traps. In this
chapter I will explain the making of many
different types of low
explosives.
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BLACKPOWDER
You will need potassium or sodium
nitrate, sulfur, and hardwood
charcoal. The common name for potassium nitrate is
saltpeter. Sodium
nitrate is sold at farm supplies under the name of nitrate of soda. It is
also called chile saltpeter. Sodium nitrate make a slightly more powerful
black powder but has a disadvantage because it will absorb moisture from
the air. So, if you use it then be sure to store it in a dry, air tight
container. You also can get sulfur at farm supplies as a wetable powder
used for spraying. It is cheap and works well. Some drug
stores sell
sulfur under the name of flowers of sulfur. If you use nitrate of soda,
it will be in the form of little round beads. Bake it in an over at 200
degrees for 10-15 minutes to drive out the moisture. Then dump a cup or
two into a blender and switch it on. It will do a
beautiful job of
reducing it to powder. Buy a bag of charcoal
briquettes at a grocery
store. Put a few briquettes in a rag and pound with a hammer. Dip
the
results into the blender, grind, and strain through a tea strainer. Mix
by volume:
6 parts potassium or sodium nitrate
2 parts powdered charcoal
1 part sulfur
This mixture will burn if ignited and will explode if ignited while tightly
confined. It can be greatly improved, however, by
processing it as
follows:
Moisten with water until it will stick together when pinched between
thumb and finger.
Press it into a disposable aluminum pie pan.
Bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes.
Get it totally dry. Grind into a fine a powder as possible with a
mortar and pestle.
If you use a blender at this point, there is a danger of
explosion.
It is not very sensitive to friction or impact, but is very sensitive
to sparks.
If you followed these directtions, you should have a fine slate-grey
powder.
OTHER TYPES OF BLACKPOWDER
Below are eleven black/gun powder formulas. They are
more powerful
than the ordinary potassium nitrate powder. The only disadvantage
(or
advantage) is that it is very sensitive to sparks and some
leave a
corrosive residue. A word of caution: when you decide to
make these
compounds be careful for some of them might decide to go up just because
they want to.
[All chemicals are measured by volume]
1: Potassium perchlorate 69.2%
Sulfur
15.4%
Charcoal
15.4%
2: Potassium nitrate 70.4%
Sulfur
19.4%
Sodium sulfate
10.2%
3: Potassium nitrate 64.0%
sulfur
12.0%
sawdust
17.0%
charcoal
7.0%
4: Potassium nitrate 50.0%
Ammonium perchlorate 25.0%
Sulfur
12.5%
charcoal
12.5%
5: Barium nitrate 75.0%
Charcoal
12.5%
Sulfur
12.5%
6: Sodium peroxide 67.0%
Sodium thiosulphate 33.0%
7: Potassium chlorate 75.0%
Sulfur
12.5%
Charcoal
12.5%
8: Potassium nitrate 79.0%
straw charcoal
12.0%
sulfur
12.0%
9: Potassium nitrate 70.6%
Sulfur
23.5%
Antimony sulfate 5.9%
10: Potassium nitrate 37.5%
Starch
37.5%
Sulfur
18.75%
Antimony powder
6.25%
11: Guanidine nitrate 49.0%
Potassium nitrate 40.0%
Charcoal
11.0%
The above chemical ratios are percentages. When making the
stuff, be
sure to grind up all the ingredients as fine as you possibly can.
The
finer you have the chemicals the better it will explode.
ZINC EXPLOSIVE
To make a big flash of flames almost instantly try mixing:
1 part Zinc dust
1 part Sulfur
When these two mix together they will burst into flame almost instantly!
Be careful for it does go off in a sudden flash and can singe anything that
it is around if not expecting it. This is not a powerful explosive but it
is violent even when not confined, so be careful.
WATER FIRE STARTER
So, do you think water puts out fires? In this one,
it starts it.
Mixture: ammonium nitrate + ammonium chloride + iodine + zinc dust. When a
drop or two of water is added, the ammonium nitrate forms nitric acid which
reacts with the zinc to produce hydrogen and heat. The heat vaporizes the
iodine (giving off purple smoke) and the ammonium chloride (becomes purple
when mixed with iodine vapor). It will ignite the
hydrogen and begin
burning.
Ammonium nitrate: 8 grams
Ammonium choride: 1 gram
Zinc dust : 8 grams
Iodine crystals : 1 gram
EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES
Following is a list of chemicals, most of which can be easily obtained.
You will also find the chemical symbol of another chemical which explodes
on contact with said chemical. This is useful in making the ever so useful
pipe bomb.
Just for the people that don't know:
CHEMICAL
EXPLODES WITH
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Acetic acid
H2SO4 HNO3
Acetic anhydride
H2SO4 HNO3
Acrolein
H2SO4 HNO3
Allyl alcohol
H2SO4 HNO3
Allyl chloride
H2SO4 HNO3
Aniline
H2SO4 HNO3
Aniline acetate
H2SO4 HNO3
Aniline hydrochloride
H2SO4 HNO3
Benzoyl peroxide
H2SO4 HNO3
Cyanic acid
H2SO4 HNO3
Chlorosulfonic acid
H2SO4 HNO3
Dimethyl keytone
H2SO4 HNO3
Epichlorohydrin
H2SO4 HNO3
Ethylene diamine
H2SO4 HNO3
Ethylene imine
H2SO4 HNO3
Hydrogen peroxide
H2SO4 HNO3
Isoprene
H2SO4 HNO3
Mesityl oxide
H2SO4 HNO3
Acetone Cyanohydrin
H2SO4
Carbon disulfide
H2SO4
Cresol
H2SO4
Cumene
H2SO4
Diisobutylene
H2SO4
Ethylene cyanohydrin
H2SO4
Ethylene glycol
H2SO4
Hydrofluoric acid
H2SO4
Cyanide of sodium
HNO3
Cyclohexanol
HNO3
Cyclohexanone
HNO3
Ethyl alcohol
HNO3
Hydrazine
HNO3
Hydriodic acid
HNO3
Isopropyl ether
HNO3
Manganese
HNO3
H2SO4 - Sulfuric Acid
HNO3 - Nitric Acid
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INCENDIARIES
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What is an incendiary? Those are compounds that do
not go "boom", but
can burn fast and generate a lot of heat. For example, thermite,
its an
incendiary, because it can produce temperatures will up in the hundreds and
can even melt metal.
NAPALM
This is just gasoline in a thickend form.
What it does is burn for
long periods of time. If it is made right I hear that water can't even put
it out. What you do is take some polystyrine (styrofoam) and place it in
some unleaded gasoline (unleaded works better). Keep feeding styrofoam to
the gas until you can not feed any more at all. At points it will
look
like thats all it can take, just wait for a minute and let the other gas
rise to the top. It will take a lot of stryrofoam until you get what you
want. When it is done, it will burn for a long time. I would suggest that
you do not place any on you because once it is lit it will travel
quite
quickly since it melts the thickend gasoline and it rolls down.
This is
also fun to play with. The only problem with it is it gives off too much
smoke (which, I may add - is poison).
THERMITE
This is the arsonists dream! Thermite is a very hot mixture.
Although
it is slightly hard to get ignited, so it is safe to transport it. Here is
what you do: Thermite is made from powdered aluminum
and iron oxide
(rust). Mix two parts by volume powdered alumnium with three parts
iron
oxide. This stuff is hard to light, but once you get it going don't plan
on putting it out, because it can produce enough heat to melt
through a
steel plate. The finer the ingredients are the easier it
will be to
ignite.
CHEMICALLY IGNITED EXPLOSIVES
A mixture of 1 part potassium chlorate to 3 parts table sugar (sucrose)
burns fiercely and brightly (similar to the burning of magnesium) when 1
drop of concentrated sulfuric acid is placed on it. What occurs is this:
when the acid is added it reacts with the potassium chlorate
to form
chlorine dioxide, which explodes on formation, burning the sugar as well.
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SMOKE BOMBS
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So, you want a smoke screen? Well this
chapter will explain how many
different types of smoke can be made. Even colored smoke.
SMOKE PRODUCER
The following reaction should produce a fair amount of smoke.
Since
this reaction is not all that dangerous you can use larger amounts
if
necessary for larger amounts of smoke.
6g zinc powder
1g sulfur powder
Insert a red hot wire into the pile, step back. A lot of smoke should
be created.
SMOKE BOMB
This is the father of all smoke bombs. Mix:
2 part Potassium Nitrate
1 Part Granulated sugar.
Put this under a very low heat source and melt the sugar and
potassium
nitrate. After it is melted let it set and get hard. When it gets
hard,
just take outside and hold a lit match on an area of the smoke
bomb and
wait till it lights. You will know when it is about to ignite because the
stuff turns black and will then spit and sputter and smoke will pour out of
the compound. You also can light it without melting it but it
burns too
fast and will make a hudge flame while the other one does not.
HTH CHLORINE SMOKE BOMB
Take HTH pool chlorine and some non-silicon brake fluid and mix the two
together in a ratio of 4 parts chlorine to 1 part brake fluid.
When you
mix the two together they will begin to sizzle and then it will begin to
smoke. It will take about 30 seconds to start smoking fully. When it does
begin to smoke it will produce a stinking cloud of thick white smoke. If
you do not be careful it could burst into flames and burn what it is in. I
suggest to place the mixture in a glass container for it gets real
hot.
And anybody in their right mind will not go pick it up and try to throw it
when it has done smoking. The smoke is known to last for over 2
minutes
and is also toxic because it produces chlorine gas, which is deadly!
SMOKE MIXTURES
Black
Hexachloroethane......... 60%
Anthracene............... 20%
Magnesium (powder)....... 20%
Brown
Pitch.................... 29.2%
Potasium Nitrate......... 47.4%
Borax.................... 10.6%
Calcium Carbonate......... 4.9%
Sand...................... 4.0%
Sulfur.................... 3.9%
Grey
Hexachloroethane......... 50%
Zinc Powder.............. 25%
Zinc Oxide............... 10%
Potassium Nitrate........ 10%
Colophony Resin........... 5%
Grey
Hexachloroethane......... 45.5%
Zinc Oxide............... 45.5%
Calcium Silicide.......... 9.0%
White
Potassium Chlorate....... 20%
Ammonium Chloride........ 50%
Naphthalene.............. 20%
Charcoal................. 10%
White
Potassium nitrate........ 48.5%
Sulfur................... 48.5%
Realgar................... 3.0%
White
Potassium Nitrate........ 50%
Sugar.................... 50%
Yellow
Potassium Nitrate........ 25%
Sulfur................... 16%
Realgar.................. 59%
White
Potassium nitrate......... 6%
Antimony sulfide.......... 1%
Powdered sulfur........... 1%
Yellow
Potassium nitrate......... 4%
Powdered sulfur........... 1%
Charcoal.................. 2%
Sodium chloride........... 3%
Yellow
Powdered sulfur........... 4%
Charcoal.................. 1%
Potassium nitrate........ 24%
Sodium carbonate.......... 6%
Red
Strontium nitrate......... 4%
Powdered orange shellac... 1%
Red
Strontium nitrate........ 11%
Powdered sulfur........... 4%
Charcoal.................. 1%
Calcium carbonate........ 11%
Potassium nitrate......... 1%
Purple
Copper sulfate............ 1%
Strontium nitrate......... 1%
Powdered sulfur........... 1%
Charcoal.................. 1%
Potassium nitrate......... 3%
Green
Barium nitrate............ 7%
Powdered sulfur........... 4%
Charcoal.................. 1%
Potassium nitrate......... 1%
Green
Barium chlorate........... 9%
Powdered orange shellac... 1%
Blue
Anitmony sulfide.......... 2%
Powdered sulfur........... 4%
Potassium nitrate........ 12%
Blue
Potassium nitrate........ 12%
Powdered sulfur........... 3%
charcoal.................. 1%
Copper sulfate............ 2%
Powdered rosin............ 1%
CHLORINE & TURPENTINE
Take a small cloth or rag and soak it in turpentine. Quickly drop it
into the bottle of chlorine. It should give off a lot of black smoke and
probably start burning..
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BOMBS
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This is the point I really stress the word saftey!
At this point it
should be well excercised and you had better know
what you are doing
before you even attempt to construct some of these devices. Remember that
the law prohibits the manufacture and use of such devices, and you could be
breaking the law in some places. If you do make on of the devices that is
listed in here then I would suggest you make a prototype and set that one
off in the country and if it worked correctly then make your final one and
use it the way you had in mind.
GENERIC BOMB
Aquire a glass container. Put in a few drops of gasoline.
Cap the top
and turn the container around to coat the inner surface. Add a few drops
of potassium permanganate (found in a snake-bite kit) . To detonate just
throw against a hard object. I hear this is the same as a half
stick of
dynamite!
FIREBOMBS
Most firebombs are simply gasoline filled bottles with a oil soaked rag
in the mouth. The original firebomb was one part gasoline
and one part
motor oil. The oil makes it splatter and stick on what your
trying to
burn. Some use one part roofing tar or one part melting wax
to 2 parts
gasoline.
PIPE BOMB
A pipe bomb is very easy to make. But is also very dangerous!
To construct a pipe bomb you will need a piece of pipe
about one foot
long. Some fine gun powder, a solar ignitor, and a battery. Cap
one end
of the pipe very good with a cap. Pour some gun powder in the
other end
about little over the middle. Cap the pipe on the other end
and make a
small hole in the middle of the pipe. Now wrap the whole pipe in electric
tape and make the hole again. Place in the head of the solar ignitor in the
hole. Tape the ignitor down so it will not fall out.
To ignite the bomb I suggest you take a VERY long wire and connect it to
the electrodes of the solar ignitor and run it very far away. Then connect
the battery at the other end of the wire. DO NOT touch the battery to the
electrodes of the bomb for even a second, because it WILL explode!!!
Remember take a long two conductor wire
and connect it to the
electrodes and run it far away and then connect the battery to it. If you
made it correctly it will explode upon contact with the battery! Remember,
this can kill you. This also can do a lot of property damage.
CONTACT GRENADE
Materials: 2-3 in. section of pipe
PVC (for test and fun)
Steel (for shrapnel)
12 guage shotgun shell
(fitted to pipe)
marble
ping pong ball
cap for pipe
2-3 ft. ribbon
(flights)
explosive charge
(of personal preferance)
a 1/2 or 1/4 cup petrol makes an excellent charge when
vaporized filling the pipe with gunpowder is simplest
or any STABLE flammable explosive one may have.
This design is a modified pipebomb which
will be set off upon hard
contact. This makes things much easier than tossing molotove cocktails or
lighting fuses as all you do is throw it and it should detonate on contact.
1) Cut the plastic of the shotgun shell off of the primer and set aside.
2) Carefully fit the primer into one end of the pipe and epoxy securely.
3) Glue the marble to the 'dimple' of the primer.
4) Cut the ping pong ball in half and then glue half onto the marble to
make a simple form of casing.
5) Put explosive charge into the hollow pipe (if useing gasoline use only
1/4 of the volume of pipe. Reason: 1 gal.
of gas vapor = 16 sticks
dynamite!!!).
6) Cap the pipe and epoxy into place.
7) Tie ribbon around tail section of pipe.
Relax. Now that its finished heres how it
works. When thrown the
grenade will come down upon the point because of the tail flights. When it
hits, the primer will be crushed by the marble, setting it off. The primer
then ignites the explosive charge. I heartily recommend that PVC be used
for testing as the steel pipe is rather dangerous. This design is
not a
toy and should not be built to be played with. If you want a
toy just
empty a shotgun shell and tape a marble to the primer and throw. It makes
a quasi-safe firework.
CARBIDE BOMB
Obtain some calcium carbide. This is the stuff that is used in
carbide
lamps and can be found at nearly any hardware store. Take a few pieces and
put it in a glass jar with some water. Put a lid on tightly. The carbide
will react with the water to produce acetylene carbonate which is similar
to the gas used in curring torches. Eventually the glass will explode from
internal pressure. If you leave a burning rag nearby, you will get a nice
fireball.
HINDENBERG BOMB
Get, a balloon, bottle, Liquid Plummer, foil, and a
length of fuse.
Fill the bottle 3/4 full with the Liquid plummer and add a little piece of
alumninum foil. Put the balloon over the next of the bottle
until the
balloon is full of the resulting gas. This is highly flammable hydrogen.
Now tie the balloon. Tape the fuse to the outside of the inflated balloon
and light. Let the balloon rise into the air. When the fuse gets
to the
balloon and bursts it, the hydrogen will cause a fireball.