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Making Nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin is the main ingredient in many explosives like dynamite. The document provides step-by-step instructions for making nitroglycerin through a dangerous nitration process involving nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycerin. It must be carefully cooled and stirred to prevent explosion. The document also lists 19 recipes for making different varieties of dynamite by combining nitroglycerin with stabilizing agents like woodmeal, sodium nitrate, and potassium nitrate. A warning is given that nitroglycerin and dynamite are extremely sensitive and dangerous.

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Making Nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin is the main ingredient in many explosives like dynamite. The document provides step-by-step instructions for making nitroglycerin through a dangerous nitration process involving nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and glycerin. It must be carefully cooled and stirred to prevent explosion. The document also lists 19 recipes for making different varieties of dynamite by combining nitroglycerin with stabilizing agents like woodmeal, sodium nitrate, and potassium nitrate. A warning is given that nitroglycerin and dynamite are extremely sensitive and dangerous.

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Nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin is the basic ingredient in a lot of explosives


such as
straight dynamites, and gelatin dynamites.

Making Nitroglycerin
====================

1. Fill a 75ml beaker to the 13ml level with fuming red


nitric acid,
of 98% pure concentration.
2. Place the beaker in an ice bath and allow to cool well
below room
temperature.
3. After it has cooled, add 39ml of fuming sulfuric acid
(99%H2SO4).
Remember that when mixing acids, you should do it slowly
and
carefully to avoid splattering. Especially with this
stuff!!!
4. When the two are mixed, lower the temperature by adding
more ice
to the bath. This is necessary because the mixing of the
two
acids may generate some heat. The temperature should drop
to
about 10-15 degrees centigrade. Use a mercury thermometer.
5. When the acid solution has cooled to the desired
temperature,
it is ready for the glycerin. The glycerin must be added
in
small amounts using a medicine dropper. (READ THIS STEP
ABOUT TEN TIMES! BE *VERY* CAREFUL!!!). Add it slowly
(SLOWLY!!!)
until the entire surface of the acid is covered with it.
6. This is a DANGEROUS point. The nitration is taking place:
as
soon as the glycerin is added, the nitration will be
producing
heat. Keep the solution below 30 degrees centigrade! If it
goes
above 30 degrees, dump it into the ice bath immediately!
This
will ensure that it does not blow you and your lab into
the next
country.
7. For the first ten minutes of the nitration, the mixture
should
be gently (GENTLY!!!) stirred. In a normal reaction the
nitroglycerin will form as a layer on the top of the acid
solution, while the sulfuric acid absorbs the ecess water.
8. After the nitration has taken place, and the nitroglycerin
has
formed on the top of the solution, the entire beaker
should be
transferred slowly (SLOWLY!) and carefully (CAREFULLY!) to
another beaker of water. When this is done the
nitroglycerin will
settle at the bottom so the acids can be drained away.
9. After removing as much acid as possible without disturbing
the
nitroglycerin, remove the nitroglycerin with an eyedropper
and
place it in a bicarbonate of soda (sodium bicarbonate)
solution.
The sodium will neutralize much of the remaining acid.
This
process should be repeated as much as necessary using blue
litmus paper to check for the presence of acid. The
remaining
acid only makes the nitroglycerin more unstable than it
already
is.
10. Finally! The final step is to remove the nitroglycerin
from
the bicarbonate. This is done with an eye dropper, slowly
and
carefully. The usual test to see if nitration has been
successful
is to place one drop of the nitroglycerin on a metal plate
and
ignite it. If it is true nitroglycerin it will burn with a
clear
blue flame.

SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS
===================

Nitroglycerin is very sensitive to decomposition,


heating,
dropping, or jarring and may explode even if left
undisturbed
and cool. Take special care with this substance.

Dynamite
Now that you've made your nitroglycerin, you can make your own
dynamite.
Dynamite is nothing more than just nitroglycerin and a stabilising
agent to
make it safer to use. I will abbreviate nitroglycerin with NG in the
instructions that follow. The numbers given are percentages, and be
sure
to use the exact amounts. These percentages are in weight ratio, not
volume.

No. Ingredients Amount


======================================

#1 NG 32
Sodium nitrate 28
Woodmeal 10
Ammonium Oxalate 29

#2 NG 24
Potassium Nitrate 9
Sodium Nitrate 56
Woodmeal 9
Ammonium Oxalate 2
#3 NG 35.5
Potassium Nitrate 44.5
Woodmeal 6
Guncotton 2.5
Petroleum Jelly 5.5
Powdered Charcoal 6

#4 NG 25
Potassium Nitrate 26
Woodmeal 34
Barium Nitrate 5
Starch 10

#5 NG 57
Potassium Nitrate 19
Woodmeal 9
Ammonium Oxalate 12
Guncotton 3

#6 NG 18
Sodium Nitrate 70
Woodmeal 5.5
Potassium Chloride 4.5
Chalk 2

#7 NG 26
Woodmeal 40
Barium Nitrate 32
Sodium Carbonate 2

#8 NG 44
Woodmeal 12
Anhydrous Sodium Sulfate 44

#9 NG 24
Potassium Nitrate 32.5
Woodmeal 33.5
Ammonium Oxalate 10

#10 NG 26
Potassium Nitrate 33
Woodmeal 41

#11 NG 15
Sodium Nitrate 62.9
Woodmeal 21.2
Sodium Carbonate .9

#12 NG 35
Sodium Nitrate 27
Woodmeal 10
Ammonium Oxalate 1

#13 NG 32
Potassium Nitrate 27
Woodmeal 10
Ammonium Oxalate 30
Guncotton 1

#14 NG 33
Woodmeal 10.3
Ammonium Oxalate 29
Guncotton .7

#15 NG 40
Sodium Nitrate 45
Woodmeal 15

#16 NG 47
Starch 50
Guncotton 3

#17 NG 30
Sodium Nitrate 22.3
Woodmeal 40.5
Potassium Chloride 7.2

#18 NG 50
Sodium Nitrate 32.6
Woodmeal 17
Ammonium Oxalate .4

#19 NG 23
Potassium Nitrate 27.5
Woodmeal 37
Ammonium Oxalate 8
Barium Nitrate 4
Calcium Carbonate .5

Remember to be careful with Nitroglycerin and with the resulting


dynamite
compound! With 19 varieties, there's sure to be one for
everyone.
!This is NEVER to be attempted

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