Hermit wrote:Mix sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. Alternatively, a mix of Diesel and nitrate based fertiliser will create a suitable bang too.
This post ought to attract the attention of the NSA, by the way. I expect my phones to be bugged and my emails harvested soon, if they are not already.
They are.
The problem with ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil) is that it's a "low explosive" and requires a high-explosive booster charge to get the detonation started, so you have to have det cord, plastique, dynamite or suchlike to make it go bang. Blasting caps can do it. I know that because I used something called "kinepack" one time on the ranch (legally...back when you could buy it at the hardware store). It's ammonium nitrate prills in a plastic tube that comes with a small container of what I believe was nitromethane or something similar. You tear the top off the AN and add the liquid to the tube, crimp the end over and put a plastic clip on it, knead it for about two minutes and then set it aside for 20 minutes to activate fully. As sold it's not an explosive and can be carried in your car perfectly safely and it doesn't have to be stored in an approved explosives magazine like dynamite and det cord do. Mixed it's the equivalent of dynamite. Insert a blasting cap, either electrically fired or fused, and you get a very satisfactory bang.
ANFO requires a blast wave at about 20,000 feet per second to initiate the detonation, and you can't obtain that without a high-explosive of some sort. You can shoot ANFO and not set it off, although ammonium nitrate does become unstable and can detonate spontaneously if heated too much, which is what caused a tremendous explosion in Texas City, Texas in 1947, and also what blew up the fertilizer plant in West, Texas in April of this year.
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