[TheForge] Fun with thermite anyone?

[Todd Rich]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jerry Smith wrote:

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> Next some one will want to try blast fusion of unlike
> metals with nitric acid and glycerin, and they don't
> understand the process of blending the stuff.
>
> Jerry
>
One piece of advice for those that want to mess with the nitric and the 
glycerin, the heat of formation is greater than the heat of detonation. 
As in just mixing them together produces enough heat to set it off.