2.13 ....... PEROXYACETONE

Materials needed:

• 4ml Acetone
• 4ml 30% Hydrogen Peroxide
• 4 drops concentrated. hydrochloric acid
• 150mm test tube

Add 4ml acetone and 4ml hydrogen peroxide to the test tube. Then add 4 drops concentrated hydrochloric acid. In 10-20 minutes a white solid should begin to appear. If no change is observed, warm the test tube in a water bath at 40 Celsius. Allow the reaction to continue for two hours. Swirl the slurry and filter it. Leave out on filter paper to dry for at least two hours. To ignite, light a candle tied to a meter stick and light it (while staying at least a meter away).

2.14 ....... CELLULOSE NITRATE (GUNCOTTON)

Commonly known as Smokeless powder, Nitrocellulose is exactly that it does not give off smoke when it burns.

Materials needed:

• 70ml concentrated sulfuric acid
• 30ml concentrated nitric acid
• 4 drops concentrate. hydrochloric acid
• 5g absorbent cotton
• 250ml sodium bicarbonate
• 250ml beaker
• Ice bath
• tongs
• paper towels

Place 250ml beaker in the ice bath, add 70ml sulfuric acid, 30 ml nitric a cid. Divide cotton into .7g pieces. With tongs, immerse each piece in the acid solution for 1 minute. Next, rinse each piece in 3 successive baths of 500ml water. Use fresh water for each piece. Then immerse in 250ml sodium bicarbonate. If it bubbles, rinse in water once more until no bubbling occurs. Squeeze dry and spread on paper towels to dry overnight.

2.15 ....... NITROGEN TRI-IODIDE

This is very shock sensitive when it comes to being agitated, moved, dropped, touched, breathed on....etc. For one thing I hope you don't do any of those. This has a high explosive value to it. It can move a lot of mass with just a little compound. I have heard so many different ways to make this, and this is the best one, I think.

Take a medium glass and fill it up with ammonium hydroxide (household ammonia). Take some iodine crystals and pour about a fourth of the glass full. Wait about 30 minutes to an hour then pour off the liquid remaining. Now, what you have in the glass it called nitrogen tri-iodide, which is very sensitive to touch. But, it is perfectly save when it is wet. That's why you do not let it dry until you want to use it. To detonate it just pour some of the wet stuff on an object and wait till something agitates it. Remember too much can harm a lot of things. It does pack a wallop!

2.16 ....... NITROGLYCERIN

Nitroglycerin is a very high explosive. It is used all around the world to do many different types of jobs. To make nitro here is what you have to do:
By weight, one part of glycerin is nitrated with 6 parts of mixed acid. The mixed acid is composed of 40% nitric and 60% sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid is slowly added to the nitric acid with constant stirring. Never mix them the other way round for they will splatter. Each part of glycerin will yield 2.3 parts of nitroglycerin. The temperature when adding the glycerin to the acids should never go above 25 degrees centigrade. If it does or if red fumes appear, the whole mess should be dumped into cold water fast. Do not take this as an encouragement to make nitroglycerin. It is a dangerous procedure to mix all these types of acids together and can easily be lost control of.

2.161 ....... MORE WAYS TO MAKE NITROGLYCERIN

1. Fill a 75-milliliter beaker to the 13 ml. Level with fuming red nitric acid, of 98% pure concentration.

2. Place the beaker in an ice bath and allow to cool below room temp.

3. After it has cooled, add to it three times the amount of fuming sulfuric acid (99% H2SO4). In other words, add to the now-cool fuming nitric acid 39 ml. Of fuming sulfuric acid. When mixing any acids, always do it slowly and carefully to avoid splattering.

4. When the two are mixed, lower their temp. By adding more ice to the bath, about 10-15 degrees centigrade. (Use a mercury-operated thermometer)

5. When the acid solution has cooled to the desired temperature, it is ready for the glycerin. The glycerin must be added in small amounts using a medicine dropper. (Read this step about 10 times!) Glycerin is added slowly and carefully (I mean careful!) Until the entire surface of the acid it covered with it.

6. This is a dangerous point since the nitration will take place as soon as the glycerin is added. The nitration will produce heat, so the solution must be kept below 30 degrees centigrade! If the solution should go above 30 degrees, immediately dump the solution into the ice bath! This will insure that it does not go off in your face!

7. For the first ten minutes of nitration, the mixture should be gently stirred. In a normal reaction the nitroglycerin will form a layer on top of the acid solution, while the sulfuric acid will absorb the excess water.

8. After the nitration has taken place, and the nitroglycerin has formed on the top of the solution, the entire beaker should be transferred slowly and carefully to another beaker of water. When this is done the nitroglycerin will settle at the bottom so the other acids can be drained away.

9. After removing as much acid as possible without disturbing the nitroglycerin, remove the nitroglycerin with an eyedropper and place it in a bicarbonate of soda (sodium bicarbonate in case you didn't know) solution. The sodium is an alkali and will neutralize much of the acid remaining. This process should be repeated as much as necessary using blue litmus paper to check for the presence of acid. The remaining acid only makes the nitroglycerin more unstable than it already is.

10. Finally! The final step is to remove the nitroglycerin from the bicarbonate. His is done with and eye- dropper, slowly and carefully. The usual test to see if nitration has been successful is to place one drop of the nitroglycerin on metal and ignite it. If it is true nitroglycerin it will burn with a clear blue flame. * * * Caution * * *
    

    Nitro is very sensitive to decomposition, heating dropping, or jarring, and may explode if left undisturbed and cool.

    
    

    2.17 ....... MAKING SULFURIC ACID
    

    No, your not really MAKING sulfuric acid, you are just making it more concentrated. All you need to do is to take a old car battery and dump all of the acid into a GLASS bowl that can be set on a stove. Do not use metal for unwanted occurrences could come about. Just take the old acid and boil it until you see white fumes come out. When you do immediately turn off the heat and let it cool. One thing, DO NOT use a gas stove. Use an electric hot plate and make it outside because the fumes are very poisonous.
    

    2.18 ....... T.N.T (Trinitrotoulene)
    

    Mix 170 parts toluene with 100 parts acid. The acid being composed of: 2 parts 70% nitric acid and 3 parts 100% sulfuric acid. Mix below 30 degrees. Set this for 30 minutes and let separate. Take the Mononitrotolulene and mix with 100 parts of it with 215 parts of acid. This acid being composed of: 1 part pure nitric acid and 2 parts pure sulfuric acid. Keep the temperature at 60 - 70 degrees while they are slowly mixed.. Raise temperature to 90 - 100 degrees and stir for 30 minutes. The dinitrotolulene is separated and mixed with 100 parts of this with 225 parts of 20% oleum, which is 100% sulfuric acid with 20% extra dissolved sulfur trioxide, and 64 parts nitric acid. Heat at 95 degrees for 60 minutes and then at 120 degrees for 90 minutes. Separate the trinitrotoluene and slosh it around in hot water. Purify the powder by soaking it in benzene.
    

    2.19 ....... MERCURY FULMINATE
    

    Mix 2 parts of Nitric Acid with 2 part alcohol (any kind) and 1 part mercury. This is very shock sensitive explosive. Be careful, Nitric Acid is an unstable acid. It will react to agitation.
    

    2.2 ....... POTASSIUM CHLORATE
    

    When petroleum jelly and potassium chlorate are mixed in a 1 to 1 ratio by weight, it makes a totally safe wet compound. But when dried becomes highly explosive and shock sensitive. This must be stored it oil.
    

    2.21 ....... POTASSIUM NITRATE
    

    Nitrate Compound
    

    Materials needed:
    

    • Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) Salt Peter
    • Aluminum Powder (dust/atomized)
    • Sulfur
    
    

    Procedure
    

    1. Take 2 Tablespoons Potassium Nitrate KNO3
    2. 2 Tablespoons Aluminum
    3. 1/2 to 1 Tablespoon Sulfur
    4. Mix and shake, until all is one solid color. Silver-gray.
    5. You can light this with a fuse or throw a match into it to light.
    
    

    You may experiment with the ratios. Here are a few tips:
    

    • To make more smoke add more sulfur to the mixture.
    • To make it burn slower, add more Potassium Nitrate.
    • To make it burn faster, add more Aluminum Dust.
    
    

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    3.0 Incendiaries

    
    

    What is an incendiary? Incendiaries are compounds that do not go explode, but burn fast and generate a lot of heat. For example, thermite, its an incendiary, because it can produce temperatures will into the thousands of degrees, and melt metal.
    

    3.01 ....... Napalm

    3.02 ....... Thermite

    3.03 ....... Chemically Ignited Explosives

    3.04 ....... Moltov Cocktails

    
    

    3.01 ....... NAPALM

    
    

    This is just gasoline in a thickened form. It burns for long periods of time. If made correctly it is very difficult to extinguish. What you do is take some polystyrene (styrofoam) and place it in some gasoline. A large pan with tall sides, like a wash pan is useful because of the increased surface area. Keep feeding styrofoam to the gas until you can not feed any more at all. At points it will appear that the gasoline cannot dissolve any more, but wait and leave it set a minute. It will take a lot of styrofoam to get enough to do anything useful or otherwise with. The thick milky looking residue left ton the bottom of the pan is the substance that is desired. When it is completed, it will burn for a few minutes. Do not place on anything that you do not want burnt. Once it is lit the viscosity of it increase quickly. The only problem with this compound, is that it gives off too much smoke.
    

    3.011 ....... EGG-BASED GELLED FUELS (NAPALM cont.)
    

    Materials required:
    

    Parts by Volume	Ingredient
    85	Gasoline
    14	Egg Whites

    
    Any 1 of the following:

    1	Table Salt
    3	Ground Coffee
    3	Dried Tea Leaves
    3	Cocoa
    2	Sugar
    1	Potassium Nitrate
    1	Epsom Salts
    2	Washing Soda (Sal Soda)
    1.5	Baking Soda
    1.5	Aspirin

    
    

    Procedure:
    

    CAUTION: Make sure that there are no open flames in the area when mixing flame fuels! NO SMOKING!!
    

    1. Separate the egg white from the yolk. This can be done by breaking the egg into a dish and carefully removing the yolk with a spoon.
    2. Pour egg white into a jar, bottle, or other container, and add gasoline.
    3. Add the salt (or other additive) to the mixture and stir occasionally until gel forms (about 5 to 10 minutes).
    
    

    NOTE: A thicker gelled flame fuel can be obtained by putting the capped jar in hot (65 degrees Centigrade) water for about 1/2 hour and then letting them cool to room temperature.
    

    (DO NOT HEAT ANY GELLED FUEL!!)
    

    3.02 ....... THERMITE
    

    Thermite burns extremely hot. Because it is difficult to ignite, it is safe to transport. Thermite is made from powdered aluminum and iron oxide (rust). Mix two parts by volume powdered aluminum with three parts iron oxide. This compound is hard to light, but once lit don't plan on putting it out, because it can produce enough heat to melt through a steel plate. The finer the ingredients are the easier it will be to ignite. As with any powdered mixture be careful of static electricity.
    

    3.03 ....... CHEMICALLY IGNITED EXPLOSIVES
    

    A mixture of:
    

    • 1 part potassium chlorate
    • 3 parts table sugar (sucrose)
    Burns fiercely and brightly (similar to the burning of magnesium) when 1 drop of concentrated sulfuric acid is placed on it. What occurs is when the acid is added it reacts with the potassium chlorate to form chlorine dioxide, which explodes on formation, burning the sugar as well.
    

    3.04 ....... MOLTOV COCKTAILS
    

    Materials needed:
    

    • Whiskey Bottle
    • cap
    • tampon
    • Copper wire
    • Gasoline
    
    

    Fill the bottle with gasoline, and screw on its cap. next dip the tampon, yes, a tampon(or a cotton ball for those of you who are wimps) in gasoline. Wrap the copper wire around the neck of the whiskey bottle, securing the tampon in place. Light the tampon and throw.
    

    If the cap is on well, then you can hold it for as long as necessary, the cocktail will not explode until the glass shatters.
    

    Variation of Moltov-Cocktail:
    

    Same as above, but fill the bottle with styrofoam after drinking the whiskey. Then fill with gasoline and proceed as planned.
    

    The styrofoam will melt when the bottle explodes, and will remain molten for a few seconds before hardening again. This is extremely painful if it gets on you, and will usually cause third degree burns.
    

    Can be used to take out wooden buildings or other substances which require a long heating before combustion. The styrofoam will burn for a while hot enough to ignite most wood structures.

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    4.0 Smoke Bombs

    
    

    4.01 ....... Smoke Producer

    4.02 ....... Smoke Bomb

    4.03 ....... HTH Chlorine Smoke Bomb

    4.04 ....... Smoke Mixtures (by color)

    4.05 ....... Chlorine & Turpentine

    So, you want a smoke screen? Well this chapter will explain how many different types of smoke can be made. Even colored smoke.
    

    4.01 ....... SMOKE PRODUCER
    

    The following reaction should produce a fair amount of smoke. Since this reaction is not all that dangerous you can use larger amounts if necessary for larger amounts of smoke.
    

    • 6g zinc powder
    • 1g sulfur powder

    Insert a red hot wire into the pile, step back. This creates a lot of smoke.
    

    4.02 ....... SMOKE BOMB
    

    This is the father of all smoke bombs. Mix:
    

    • 2 part Potassium Nitrate
    • 1 Part Granulated sugar

    Put this under a very low heat source and melt the sugar and potassium nitrate. After it is melted let it set and get hard. When it gets hard, just take outside and hold a lit match on an area of the smoke bomb and wait till it lights. You will know when it is about to ignite because the stuff turns black and will then spit and sputter and smoke will pour out of the compound. You also can light it without melting it but it burns too fast and will make a huge flame while the other one does not.
    

    4.03 ....... HTH CHLORINE SMOKE BOMB
    

    Take HTH pool chlorine and some non-silicon brake fluid and mix the two together in a ratio of 4 parts chlorine to 1 part brake fluid. When you mix the two together they will begin to sizzle and then it will begin to smoke. It will take about 30 seconds to start smoking fully. When it does begin to smoke it will produce a stinking cloud of thick white smoke. If you do not be careful it could burst into flames and burn what it is in. I suggest to place the mixture in a glass container for it gets real hot. And anybody in their right mind will not go pick it up and try to throw it when it has done smoking. The smoke is known to last for over 2 minutes and is also toxic because it produces deadly chlorine gas!!
    

    4.04 ....... SMOKE MIXTURES
    

    All mixture parts are in percentages by volume.

    Black

    Hexachloroethane	60%
    Anthracene	20%
    Magnesium (powder)	20%

    
    

    Brown

    Pitch	29.2%
    Potassium Nitrate	47.4%
    Borax	10.6%
    Calcium Carbonate	4.9%
    Sand	.4.0%
    Sulfur	3.9%

    
    

    Gray

    Hexachloroethane	50%
    Powder	25%
    Zinc Oxide	10%
    Potassium Nitrate	10%
    Colophony Resin	5%

    
    

    Hexachloroethane	45.5%
    Zinc Oxide	45.5%
    Calcium Silicide	9.0%

    
    

    White

    Potassium Chlorate	20%
    Ammonium Chloride	50%
    Naphthalene	20%
    Charcoal	10%

    
    

    Or
    

    Potassium nitrate	48.5%
    Sulfur	48.5%
    Realgar	3.0%

    
    

    Or
    

    Potassium Nitrate	50%
    Sugar	50%

    
    

    Or
    

    Potassium nitrate	6%
    Antimony sulfide	1%
    Powdered sulfur	1%

    
    

    Yellow

    Potassium nitrate	4%
    Powdered sulfur	1%
    Charcoal	2%
    Sodium chloride	3%

    
    

    Or
    

    Potassium Nitrate	25%
    Sulfur	16%
    Realgar	59%

    
    

    Or
    

    Powdered sulfur	4%
    Charcoal	1%
    Potassium nitrate	24%
    Sodium carbonate	6%

    
    

    Red

    Strontium nitrate	4%
    Powdered orange shellac	1%
    Strontium nitrate	11%
    Powdered sulfur	4%
    Charcoal	1%
    Calcium carbonate	11%
    Potassium nitrate	1%

    
    

    Purple

    Copper sulfate	1%
    Strontium nitrate	1%
    Powdered sulfur	1%
    Charcoal	1%
    Potassium nitrate	3%

    
    

    Green

    Barium nitrate	7%
    Powdered sulfur	4%
    Charcoal	1%
    Potassium nitrate	1%
    Barium chlorate	9%
    Powdered orange shellac	1%

    
    

    Blue

    Antimony sulfide	2%
    Powdered sulfur	4%
    Potassium nitrate	12%
    Potassium nitrate	12%
    Powdered sulfur	3%
    charcoal	1%
    Copper sulfate	2%
    Powdered rosin	1%

    
    

    4.05 ....... CHLORINE & TURPENTINE
    

    Take a small cloth or rag and soak it in turpentine. Quickly drop it into the bottle of chlorine. It should give off a lot of black smoke and probably start burning...
    

    * * * Warning * * *
    This reaction very probably gives off caustic, and toxic fumes, or gasses. Use extreme caution with this compound!!
    

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