Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:34:16 EST
From: <DEY101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: NI3

In article <Bz7MGy.1wr@cs.uiuc.edu> stangel@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) writes:
>>A while ago (perhaps a year?) someone posted a recipe for making
>>Nitrogen Tri-Iodide.  (At lease, I'm pretty sure that's what it
>>was -- the brown crystals; many of you know what I'm talking about)
>>Does anyone still have that?  Wanna repost it?
>>
>>Mike

>****************THE FOLLOWING IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
>ONLY****************

>If you blow yourself up, I do NOT take responsibility, so if you try it,
>BE CAREFUL. Also, these activities may or may not be appreciated by your
>local law enforcement agency, so if you end up in jail, that's not my
>problem either.

>***************************************************************************

>OK. I don't know about the brown stuff, but I do know of a fairly easy
>to produce contact explosive (I'm gonna get it right this time, 'cause
>i've made it.)  Here's what you do:

>            1. Beg, borrow, or steal as much AgNO3 (silver nitrate)
>crystals as
>               you can.

>            2. Put 'em in solution with warm (100 F) water.

>            3. Bubble C2H2 (acetylene) through the solution.

>            4. Collect the precipitate.

>The precipitate is the explosive. I forget what the stuff is called, or
>the chemical formula. Luckily, I do remember how to handle the stuff
>safely (as safe as explosives of this nature get.) It's easy, KEEP IT
>WET. When it dries out, it becomes unstable, and therefore explosive.
>Some neat tricks:

>           1. Pack the wet precipitate into keyholes. When it
>dies......don't
>              be around

>           2. Sprinkle damp powdered precipitate on a dance floor when it
>              dries, it will crackle when walked on. But be sure to make sure
>              there are no chunks, as they will severely screw somebody up.

>           3. SMALL (size of a BB, experiment here, as your purity may vary)
>              chunks inside drawers, etc.
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The stuff described above is not NI3, but silver fulminate. This is
what is coated on the little rocks in those 'snappers' (little paper
things that go bang when they hit something).

The NI3 isusually the nastier of the two as far as the effects go but
both get the job done.  However NI3 does tend to leave a nasty stain
on anything organic and just about any thing else too.

The 'tricks' above work for these too. One really good use is if you
want to booby trap something that someone may break into. When the NI3
goes off, it will scare the shit out of them, then leave nasty stains
they can't get off for you to catch them.

Don't remember the exact formula for NI3 but will post tomorrow.
 - who needs to memorize stuff when you can look it up to be sure.
   (too bad the proffs won't get that one through their heads. :-( ) :-)


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