i have mag and al. and i just light it with a lighter and i have day again. those of you that have burned it you know what i mean. i want to make a good use of it because it takes a while to ignite and is a hassle give me ideas

You need to add an oxidizer. Also, the smaller the granule size of your fuel the faster it will burn and the more readily it will ignite, due to increased surface area.

Read up a little, though.

If you got your hands on some Iron oxide, you could make thermite with your aluminium. (im assuming its powdered.)

Then use the Magnesium as a fuse.

Err, I seem to have misplaced my thrusty Engrish dictionnairy ...

I'm sorry, i can't understand you, perhaps you could try a little harder.

I think he's asking for a starting mix..... Try.......... some KNO3/C/S ratios found on pyroteknix' site somewhere.... under the thermite section... or come KClO3+Sucrose.

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Originally posted by asilentbob:
I'm sorry, i can't understand you, perhaps you could try a little harder.

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Yeah, if it takes two times to understand what you wrote, you need to write more clearly.

Hmmm, I understand what he means, despite his poor grammar. His magnesium is probably is a chips or ribbon form, and I bet his aluminum is too. Yes, aluminum is a pain in the ass to light, alone. Study basic principles of chemistry, surface area, dumbass, surface area! I use what I call a thermal rise cord to ignite my termite. I use BP, BP3+Mg2, MG2+KNO3, MG alone. I use them in that order. But yeah. I'd use some of that to ignite your Al+Mg Mix. Otherwise, if you Mg isn't small enough, it takes forever to burn, and sometimes only single pieces of Mg DO burn, and do not ignite the rest. Buy a mortar and pestle. And a ball mill.

FYI, Mg is not diatomic, so when you write a chemical equation with it it's just "Mg" not "Mg2" like you would with a diatomic chem like hydrogen (always H2)

I think that he's -in his own perception of logic- describing his personal ratios. Alike shimizu, one might add.

Yeah, the element "BP" isn't triatomic either...

It's just ratios man

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~Arete

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Originally posted by maximusg:
Yeah, the element "BP"....

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