Anyone else here into Home Chemistry?
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They sell thermite on ebay iirc, only it's listed as iron oxide and aluminium.
It just happens to be sold in just the right ratio
Says it's for pottery glazing, and he's right but it's ideal for thermite as well.
Few interesting compounds on there for pottery glazing, it's how i got my crom ox and ceox so easily, used for my straight razors of course but still.
It just happens to be sold in just the right ratio
Says it's for pottery glazing, and he's right but it's ideal for thermite as well.
Few interesting compounds on there for pottery glazing, it's how i got my crom ox and ceox so easily, used for my straight razors of course but still.
Solar water heating or photovoltaic?
The PV kind yes.
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I made the usual array of home made explosives and fireworks out of weedkiller and sugar, potassium permanganate and sugar, home made gunpowder etc. You used to be able to buy saltpetre and 'flowers of sulphur' (sulphur powder) from the chemist, so as long as you used two chemists and were able to lie to him about what you wanted it for it was easy to get. These days you can get it on eBay.
The Anarchists Cookbook was the document to get. Usually in the form of a dogged out bundle of bad photocopies, then on disks on the Amiga, then the internet made it available to the masses
I did a bit of professional pyrotechnics in special effects for a bit, blowing things up basically
These days it's mainly chemistry in the kitchen and using combinations of harmful acids, alkalis and bleach to clear the drains
I remember getting a giant chemistry set for Christmas when I was 10. I got bored with it and mixed all the chemicals together in a test tube (there was about 20, IIRC). It started heating up and fizzing and needless to say I panicked and threw it into the garden. There was no earth-shattering explosion though. 
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In industry we used to dissolve polystyrene cups in petrol to make fire gel. You could smear it on things and it would stick and burn well.
Thermite isn't illegal as far as I know. We used to just buy it in big tubs in pellet form from, I think, the railway industry. I was always under the impression they used it for emergency rail repairs
Don't know if this is possible, but if it helps you can buy single cells on eBay for peanuts and make your own panel up?
Damn, this thread has reminded me I haven't made anything for ages
I'm usually given blank faces when I try to explain to people that HF is extremely corrosive yet at the same time a weak acid.
I remember getting a giant chemistry set for Christmas when I was 10. I got bored with it and mixed all the chemicals together in a test tube (there was about 20, IIRC). It started heating up and fizzing and needless to say I panicked and threw it into the garden. There was no earth-shattering explosion though.
Those chemistry sets are crap, I remember having one, Mg + CuO or Mg + NaOH are much better experiments than anything in those sets.
Come over to the dark side Dolph, I've been selling uranium to Iraq for years now and 50% of the speed sold in the UK comes from my house. You don't know what you're missing.
I'm usually given blank faces when I try to explain to people that HF is extremely corrosive yet at the same time a weak acid.
And how well do they understand when you try to explain what it means for an acid to be "strong" or "weak"?
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Come over to the dark side Dolph, I've been selling uranium to Iraq for years now and 50% of the speed sold in the UK comes from my house. You don't know what you're missing.
Many years ago we dealt with a case of a guy who was making 2C-B in his bedroom in his parents' house...
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Well i heard he obtained the necessary bits how he could, and over the years refined it.
Could be an urban myth but to me it didn't sound like it, sure there was a big ruckus about it, seeing it was all done form his shed.
Ah here we go, radioactive boy scout, tried making a reactor at home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
I watched one of those really irritating TV documentarys about him a while back - where their mix is to repeat every actual fact about 30 times and stick in a load of conjecture, when all I really wanted to know was whether the guy had actually made a funtioning breeder reactor in his shed!