i really want to make some flashpowder and i hae a few questions... exactaly how sensetive is it i heard that it withstand a pretty good beating before it sets off and i also herd that it can go off by static electricty. how much louder is flash powder than black powder and how much more destruction does it do compared to bp? i also prob cannot order the ingreadents. i can make the powder aluminum i just cant get some perchloride! if worst comes to worst i'll just oreder it to my cousins house and when i got visit him around labor day he can give me it.....

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[QUOTE]More About Flash
by Tim Nowicki

From a safety stand point, enough just can't be said about flash powder. If you don't believe me, just check out the John Vico seminar in the AFN Fireworks Video Magazine #4. He is living proof that shit can happen to anybody. You just can't have the "ain't gonna happen to me" attitude. At the last Pyro picnic (Oct. 2) I set off a bag of flash powder (a little less than one pound). You'd have to be there to understand the power of this stuff. This powder was in a bag - no casing, no end plugs. From this small demo you will gain an instant respect for flash.
To wrap up this short article, I'd like to add some info that was not included in Mike Stoumen's Flash article. The following is reprinted with permission from Bill Ofca's "Technique in Fire: All about Flash and Aerial Salutes." This is a breakdown of what will happen when one hundred pounds (100 lbs) of flash is detonated in the open air. It is instantly lethal in a 25 foot open air radius and lethal up to several hundred feet if hit by missiles propelled from the blast. Windows will break for a 1/4 mile radius and buildings will sustain structural damage to window and door frames up to 600 feet away. Buildings within 200 feet will sustain structural damage to framing timbers. Any questions?????

Tim Nowicki WNYPA

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Look at the very bad things tread for info on flash.

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ok i gess ALL chems. should be treated with respect... what medium/ high grade expolisive should i start out with??? and i need the materials to be easily obtainable i cant order things and i do not have a scale so where could i buy one? one last thing where the hell have all the mods been this weekend and what time do all of u guy usally anwser ?'s

This site should show how to make any med or high explosives but it wont show your mixtures only compounds. http://roguesci.org/megalomania/index.html

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[This message has been edited by Genital-Warfare (edited 08-04-2002).]

You can get scales at Jewels, Osco, walgreens, anywhere!

There is no such thing as a medium explosive.

I recommend N(NN)3N (a molecule I designed) for your first explosive.

WTF thats just nitrogen

Yes, it is a pure nitrogen molecule. And it liberates 2.55 times as much energy per gram as nitroglycerine.

How would you go about making it?

2.55 times stronger than nitro that means its rate is 19,635 m/s.

I cant tell if thats a joke, your stupid, or you arre so incredibaly smart i cant comprehend it.

CTR

I actually haven't synthesized it yet. The synthesis would be very dangerous - nucleophilic substitutions of the chlorine in NCl3, chlorination of N(NH2)3 and reaction of the chlorinated product, N(NCl2)3 with N(NH2)3, liberating HCl and forming N(NN)3N. Calculations show that it will liberate 2.55 times as much energy per gram as nitroglycerine (14kJ/g, as opposed to around 5.5kJ/g for nitroglycerine), along with a greater STP gas volume (0.8L/g as opposed to approximately 0.7L/g for nitroglycerine).

I plan on attempting the synthesis as soon as I synthesize some sodium amide, which I need for nucleophilic substitutions. That's the main problem I'm facing. I have designed an alternative route of synthesizing sodium amide - reacting molten sodium oxide with oxamide. The procedure recommended in chemistry textbooks is extremely annoying and hazardous; it requires passing anhydrous ammonia over sodium metal at about 350C.

With that said my question is answerd you are no idiot and sound to smart for me to understand.

I see. And how, exactly, do you plan to set it off?

~Zero the Inestimable