binary explosives

"andy" · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:30

has anyone seen this video on this type of explosives

here

very very scary if what the video says is true :eek:

anyone know about these things?

could the video by a fake ? ( it seems to me the melon just gets blown sideways onto the ground :confused:

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how easy could th ewrong sort of people get hold of whatever chemicals they are using ?

Vonhelmet · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:38

What, you never seen Die Hard With A Vengeance?

Yeah, I bet those explosives are nasty. I also bet they're expense.

Hey, if terrorists are going to blow up something, they'll find a way.

"andy" · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:39

vonhelmet said:
What, you never seen Die Hard With A Vengeance?

one of my fav films but i never considered them to be real :eek:

B&W · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:43

they can make bombs with stuff which is easier to obtain and far less expensive so as to not draw attention.

geeza · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:50

yes, we should be scared. imaging the damage if you concealed say 20 or so of those pens all linked to one fuse in a pencil case :eek:

"andy" · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:54

geeza said:
yes, we should be scared. imaging the damage if you concealed say 20 or so of those pens all linked to one fuse in a pencil case

blatantly a terrorist with crazy ideas like that !

PURE MAYHEM !!!!

VIRII · 25 Jan 2007 at 00:02

I would imagine they are reasonably easy to get hold of for well connected terrorists that are reasonably high up the organisational tree with contacts in places like (purely for example) Iran.
The homegrown 7/7 bomber I would think is pretty unlikley to get hold of them.

Dr House · 25 Jan 2007 at 00:08

I wonder how many of you are now being monitored by the anti terrorist department after googling “how to make binary explosives out of house hold products”

Azagoth · 25 Jan 2007 at 01:29

In the "stupidest thing you've done" thread, I mentioned how during my Uni days we totalled a mates car by blowing a tree up and watching said tree land on the car. Bear in mind that this way back in the mid 90's and not recently.

Binary explosives is how we did it. You'd be surprised at how easy it is destroy things given only the contents of a kitchen sink unit, or in our case a University chemistry lab.

*sits back and waits for the knock at the door*

geeza · 25 Jan 2007 at 12:14

I tried to make a smoke bomb using jolly rodger methods, only i substituted salt peter (potassium nitrate) with sodium chlorate (weedkiller), because its another oxidizing agent.

What then happened when i heated it on a low heat with sugar was it ignited in the tin and shot a 6 foot flame/shower of molten sugar onto my mum n dads kitchen ceiling and the work surfaces. :eek:

Baking the sodium chlorate with sugar on paper did make good flash paper though

House · 25 Jan 2007 at 12:56

I did similair things nearly burning my folks house down once, fortunatly there was a fire extinguiser nearby to save the day (but not me from a good kicking and my pocket money stopped for about 6 months).

The thing is these days most chemistry sets have nothing in them. I'm guessing they are rather scared of being sued.

Thing its Chemistry is on of those things you get interested in by fiddling around, then as you get older you learn the real details of why things go bang.

Nobody remembers chemistry as being periodic tables from school, you remember the burning magnisium, the sodium in a bowl of water and the phosporus (actually that one was a little too dramatic).

These days if i made some of the things I did as a teenager I'd be dragged away as the next Unibomber and locked up without trial.