Herbicide?

[Ranciday4182]

Ok, i saw a "Mythbusters" episode on "Exploding Trousers" and the most potent of the chemicals soaked into the pants was Herbicide/???, it ignited to an open flame, to extreme heat, & on hard contact (blunt force).

what clear liquid is mixed w/ Herbicide to make a potently flammable substance?

[Temptation]

Dude I have no idea...But you could just throw gasoline or Paint thinner at somone and then a zippo and watch em burn?

[firetime27]

the probly used cotton soaked in nitric acid and sulfuric acid as a catalyst, creating nitrocellulose

[kingbobisdead]

id have to agree

isnt it scary how bad we could fuck stuff up if we wanted to?

[Cuddles]

good ole guncotton...but what he's talkin about seems to be sometin that is already in herbicide....try just getting some herbicide.....

[juniperlee]

Try this:
If you grind the herbicide, mix the powder it makes with gasoline, it makes a grey-white paste (Make sure it is more watery than paste like. you want a good consistancy. you have to be able to soak it up.). Cut a square piece of cotton fabric (from an old shirt or something) and let it soak. You will probably have left over shit but make sure the fabric is soaked. Let it dry on a clothes line or something like that. When it is dry you can use an open flame, direct heat (Like extreme exposure to sun-using a magnifier or something), or use a hammer (and let the weight of the hammer be the force you use) to hit it. The end result is a big boom. Don't use the open falme near anything flamable (including your hand). The open flame is the most dangerous. If you don't get the consistancy right. you could have catostrophic results. The best would be the hammer on a hard surface you don't mind getting a little burnt.
All this brought to you by a college chem class experiment.

[Cuddles]

is that or is that not a form of guncotton?

there are good chances that there is more than one way to make guncotton....is that one of them....

[juniperlee]

It's not a type of gun cotton. This is a chemical soaked in cotton. The active ingrediant is the mixture not the cotton. "guncotton" is a material that has been molecularly altered from cotton to something else. Come on now this is simple elementary chemical knowledge. The aformentioned idea, was an example of one way it could be done, you can use any soaking material. If you wanted to you could use poliester for all I care. Cotton was an example of the easiest material to use. You could just let it turn to a solid and light it like that. Put a fucking fuse in it and have a ball.

[Cuddles]

It's not a type of gun cotton. This is a chemical soaked in cotton. The active ingrediant is the mixture not the cotton. "guncotton" is a material that has been molecularly altered from cotton to something else. Come on now this is simple elementary chemical knowledge. The aformentioned idea, was an example of one way it could be done, you can use any soaking material. If you wanted to you could use poliester for all I care. Cotton was an example of the easiest material to use. You could just let it turn to a solid and light it like that. Put a fucking fuse in it and have a ball.

whell, sorry, you said cotton, i assumed there would be nitrogen in the herbicide, and that was mixing with the gasoline to release the nitrogen and some kno3 which would then turn into nitrocellulose on contact with the cotton, it was an honnest mistake that is often caused by thinking too deeply....if i had been sure that this was what was happening, i wouldnt have asked, thats why i asked, i just wanted to make sure of myself, and my ideas.....im still not sure where i thought the kno3 was coming from.....