[TheForge] Re: Nitric acid

[Mike Spencer]

Andy quoth:
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> I suspect this is some more 9/11 backlash.  It's very easy
> to make things that go boom with it.  Gun cotton, while not> 
> explosive in itself, becomes so when confined.  A few large
> bales of cotton soaked in nitric would make a goodly amount
> of boom.

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Really irritates me.  You can make nitroglycerine in yr back yard,
too.  No self-respecting terrorist would mess around with hazardous
chemicals when he could buy or steal modern explosives.  I suppose
that, oh, say, one in ten depressed teenage wannabe-Matrix-Dude loner
geeks who tried it might succeed and one in seven of those might
survive the process.

Any day now, you'll need a munitions license to own a beat up
honky-tonk piano lest you pry off the celluloid key covers, shred them
up and bomb your least-favorite authority figure.

Feh.

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