2006-10-29 04:37:10 · 12 answers · asked by xoxXaimless..Xxox 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Kwl!!!! wkd answers folks!! thankoo... i was wundering if any one has any equations for some as well..? thankoo Xx
2006-10-29 04:51:01 · update #1
Check out Braniac on Sky One/Three. A good one is ask (in separate chemists) for "permanganate of potash" and " flowers of sulphur". Crush the permanganate of potash (aka potassium permanganate) crystals in to a powder and add 15 % sulphur. Compress (carefully!) into a cardboard tube. Use a piece of tissue paper (pref about 1 metre long) soaked in pot perm solution and left to dry, as a fuze.
2006-10-29 04:58:36 · answer #1 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking how to make an explosion yourself ? If so, most of the 'recipes' given in the answers so far will not be of much use to you, because one can no longer buy things like ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, potassium chlorate etc. without a licence. At least, not in the UK. Even the sodium chlorate weedkiller, which schoolboys used to use to make a crude explosive, is now sold with a retardant added, which prevents it being used to make an explosive mixture.
The only explosive that I know of that one can make at home is nitrogen iodide. You can make this by adding ammonia solution to iodine crystals, leaving the mixture to stand for half and hour and then filtering off the black nirogen iodide powder. Spread the filter paper out to dry and, when it is completely dry, it will detonate at the slightest touch or sometimes will detonate spontaneously. If you cannot get hold of iodine crystals, I believe you can use tincture of iodine.
It's a low explosive and therefore much less dangerous than things like TNT or other commonly used high explosives. In small quantities (less than 0·2g) it is unlikely to cause you any injury. I've had some explode in the palm of my hand all it did was to produce a stinging sensation and it left a yellow stain on my skin that took several hours to disappear. I must warn you though that I've heard of one person who lost an eye after preparing a fairly large quantity of nitrogen iodide and then leaning over it to find out why it hadn't 'gone off'.
If you want, you could try this additional experiment:
Place a very small piece of raw meat, like a single granule of minced meat right next to the nirogen iodide on the filter paper before it is dry. Then wait for a fly to be attracted by the bait ........... I hope I won't be targeted by animal rights extremists for this suggestion !
Allan Deeds.
P.S. to toddmessenger: Did your chemistry really teach you that saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal can be used to make a crude form of dynamite ? If so, you should go back and tell your teacher that it's not true, because that's the recipe for making gunpowder.
2006-10-31 14:16:10 · answer #2 · answered by deedsallan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many reactions that explode from a simple hydrogen and air mixture which makes water, to chemicals which decompose rapidly to a gas or gases (like the nitrogen iodide mentioned above) and on to complex organic explosives. Essentially many explosive reactions are between a chemical which has a good supply of 'available' oxygen and a chemical which readily burns. White phosphorus and potassium chlorate makes quite a bang.
6P + 5KClO3 = 3P2O5 + 5KCl
Potassium metal added to a little water explodes.
2K + 2H2O = 2KOH + H2 then 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O
2006-10-29 18:23:26 · answer #3 · answered by Examiner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ammonia nitrate and diesel called ampho in the mines in Australia
Chlorine crystals and brake fluid
Potassium in water
sodium in water
salt peter , carbon and sulphur in the right proportions makes a crude form of dynamite
2006-10-30 08:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by toddmessenger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hot cooking oil and cold water.
Many a fire has been caused by people trying to put out a burning chip pan using water.
2006-11-01 17:28:15 · answer #5 · answered by dunfie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sodium when put with water has such a violent reaction that it explodes creating fire too .... thats y its immpossible 2 get sodium without a labs permission and it is usually kept in oil to protect it from water (sodium is a very soft metal almost like very tough paste)
2006-10-29 12:47:59 · answer #6 · answered by bannakai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nitrogen triiodide will exlode at almost any disturbance.
2 NI3 --> N2 +3 I2
Nitroglycerin will also explode.
2006-10-29 12:46:29 · answer #7 · answered by (f-_-)f 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All reactions that produce a large quantity of gas and energy.
2006-10-29 12:45:45 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. J. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you distill something to dryness any explosive materials left will detonate
2006-10-30 19:05:11 · answer #9 · answered by Kevvy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Splitting an atom!
2006-10-29 12:45:07 · answer #10 · answered by Coyote 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋