How to make/obtain explosives that detonate on impact?

[Howard]

Just once, I'd like to mail a soft-boxed package (fake info of course) with the 'stuff' inside. I'd write, in permanent marker, "Hey, you fvckers, handle this sh!t carefully!" all over the box.

Haha

 

[amnesiac]

umm, right.

 

[gentobu]

You could fill it with thousands of those little popper things.

 

[IcemanJer]

see you in jail.

 

[SWirth86]

Put gasoline in bottle. Dip rag in, and put halfway in. Light end of rag. Throw. When it hits the ground....explosion.

Ok, it might need a little alteration to work inside a cardboard box, but you can work with it now that youve got a general idea.

 

[loup garou]

I don't think this thread will last long. But, it's really easy to make amm***** triiod***

 

[gentobu]

Or if you want to be really evil you could get a lot of strike anywhere matches and cut the heads off, and pack them in really tight.

 

[Howard]

Ammonium triiodide?

 

[Pr0Hawk]

.....................stay away from me and my family psycho!

 

[pyonir]

shouldn't you be hanging out with luvya? You two could be partners in psychosis.

 

[Whitecloak]

i b t l

why is it forbidden?

 

[tcsenter]

Hi, ho hum, nothing to see here!

 

[ThePresence]

Big brotha is listening.

 

[xospec1alk]

this is probably gonna get locked, but...interesting question...pynoir...i think you are on the top of luvya's hit list now...better watch out

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: werk
I don't think this thread will last long. But, it's really easy to make amm***** triiod***

It also really easy to make nitrogylcerin. Very explosive if bumped hard enough. My chem teacher actually put the chemical equation on an exam. Afterwards I asked him if we could make it in the lab. Of course he said no, and so I told him that it "wasn't fair". He responded by saying "Well, it also wouldn't be fair to make your lab partner pick your fingers up off the floor." The moral is that if you make something that will blow up if handled incorrectly, you are likely to blow yourself up. Fair warning.

Ryan

 

[SWirth86]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Put gasoline in bottle. Dip rag in, and put halfway in. Light end of rag. Throw. When it hits the ground....explosion

Well not really an explosion, more like vigorous burning. Gasoline isn't explosive but the fumes can be.

Detonate is a technical term that suggests a different kind of reaction/process than mere burning, however vigorous that burning may be. Dried Picric Acid that is crystalized will go boom when dropped and will yield roughly the same explosive force of TNT. Of course, dry Picric Acid is so shock sensitive, you may not make it to the mail box.

Heh, yea, youre right
But I think that will still put out the desired effect for him

 

[idNut]

John Carmack was good at explosives, drop him an email.

 

[tcsenter]

Damn I just realized what I did.

Uh...that post was for informational or educational purposes only!

 

[ZeroBurn]

i saw you can make bombs with soap in a movie once !

 

[IBuyUFO]

Reported to the F Beee I

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: ZeroBurn
i saw you can make bombs with soap in a movie once !

I think I saw that movie too, do you remember the name of it?

 

Originally posted by: LyNx01

Originally posted by: ZeroBurn
i saw you can make bombs with soap in a movie once !

I think I saw that movie too, do you remember the name of it?

Fight Club. They didnt make it with soap...soap was the by-product. I think

 

[bonk102]

and are you asking to be arrested or what? do you not like your life the way it is???

 

[brtspears2]

Originally posted by: gentobu
Or if you want to be really evil you could get a lot of strike anywhere matches and cut the heads off, and pack them in really tight.

Try this in a tennis ball....not that I know.....

 

[tcsenter]

i saw you can make bombs with soap in a movie once !

Fight Club. They didnt make it with soap...soap was the by-product. I think

I didn't see Fight Club, but there is a common thread between explosives and soap. The old way of making soap involved combining animal lard or fat with lye or potash. A by-product of this process was the release of glycerin from the animal fat. You can recover pure glycerin from the soap-making process after removing the soap, adulterants and residues.

The glycerin can then be nitrated in the presence of sulphuric acid and you get nitroglycerin.

Soaps today don't contain much glycerin unless they are created to be "moisturizing" soaps, glycerin is very hydroscopic. Those 'natural' soaps you can buy from small specialty soap making companies can contain a lot of glycerin. Some moisturizing lotions and creams are glycerin based, but you can buy glycerin by the bottlefull so I don't know why anyone would chose to extract glycerin the hard way.

BTW, dynamite is basically nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert material such as wood saw-dust. The inventor of dynamite was Alfred Nobel, after whom the Nobel Prize is named.

Although making nitroglycerin may not require sophisticated lab equipment, it is EXTREMELY risky unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing, contrary to what some of those 'Anarchist's Cook Book' and similar publications might claim.

They should rename some of those books "20 Sure-Fire and Easy Ways to Blow Yourself to Bits."