From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Dec 24 1996 - 16:25:56 MST
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Chris Hind wrote:
> >(Being a cautious person, I dislike experiments that are intended to go
> >BOOM. But I'm still proud of my utterly insane magnesium-manganese
> >dioxide-potassium chlorate mixture)
We used magnesium/potassium permanganate back then, before progressing to
ammonia nitrate-containing mixes. We made potassium chlorate from sodium
chlorate by mixing solutions of a commercial defoliant (80% sodium
chlorate) with potassium chloride. We also made aceton peroxide and
nitrogen trijodide &c&c.
> Just changing the subject header. I myself was a pyro freak for awhile.
Who hasn't?
ciao,
'gene
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