[TheForge] Fun with thermite anyone?

Demon Buddha osan at netlabs.net
Mon Apr 24 19:28:38 EDT 2006


You'd have to be a blithering idiot to play with nitric acid.  That is 
bad ass material with some wild characteristics where flesh is concerned.

Todd Rich wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jerry Smith wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> 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.


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