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From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Low yeild explosives and "snappers"
Message-ID: <766@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 13:30:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: cpocd2.766
Posted: Wed Jul  1 13:30:40 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jul-87 05:03:32 EDT
References: <209@picuxa.UUCP< <531@nonvon.UUCP<
Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ
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in article <209@picuxa.UUCP<, gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) says:
< 
< When I was in college, I used to make a pretty simple explosive using
< ammonium hydroxide, and iodine (I think it was ammonium tri-iodide).

In article <531@nonvon.UUCP< apn@nonvon.UUCP (root) writes:
<The commercial snappers... are based on silver fulminate and sand.
<Cheap actually... Another few favorite combinations are
<from arsenic trioxide/sulfides or ( origins from india )
<red-P and KClO3 or PbN3 or

One more that no one mentioned is silver acetylide.  Packs quite a wallop
and doesn't leave that iodine stain or any toxic residue.  Why bother with
arsenic and lead?

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