Some Militants who don't have much dynamite use ammonium nitrate. This
can be bought by anyone at $3.75 for and 80 pound bag. It is fertilizer.

Ammonium nitrate explodes at rates up to 14,000 feet per second. It is
roughly compared to dynamite having 60% nitro.

The fertilizer grade Militants use is mixed with motor oil at the ratio of
one pint of oil to 8-1/2 pounds of ammonium nitrate. This has to be detonated
with a stick of gelatin dynamite [I didn't say all was easy. Try to find
another file about that crap.].

Purified ammonium nitrate can be detonated with a number six dynamite cap.
The pure stuff can be bought at chemical supply houses or the fertilizer grade
can be purified with distilled wood alcohol.

Put several pounds of fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate in a pan. Pour in
enough wood alcohol (methanol) to cover the fertilizer. Then stir it until a
lot of it has dissolved. Next, let it set for a few minutes to allow the
impurities to settle to the bottom along with the undissolved ammonium nitrate.

Another pan is set on some pieces of dry ice for the next step. Dry ice
can be found in the business section of the phone book under "Dry Ice." Locker
companies will sell it to anyone, cheaply and in small amounts.

The dissolved ammonium nitrate is poured into the cold pan. This is done
carefully so as to leave the impurities and undissolved ammonium nitrate
behind.

The dry ice causes the purified ammonium nitrate to precipitate out of the
solution in crystals. When no more crystals are formed they are removed from
the alcohol.

The alcohol is then poured back into the other pan and stirred to dissolve
any ammonium nitrate left undissolved. After setting a few minutes the
solution is again poured off the dregs and the dregs are thrown away. When the
last batch of crystals is removed, the alcohol can be stored and reused.

The dry ice is simply frozen carbon dioxide and its fumes are harmless
unless they are enough to replace the air. Don't handle the dry ice with your
bare hands [unless you are into pulling your skin off to the bone] as its cold
will cause blisters.

In order for pure ammonium nitrate to be detonated by a dynamite cap, it
must be very dry. Spread it out under a heat lamp ir in thte sun. When
completely dry, store it in tightly closed plastic bags.

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So you don't know what to do with your ammonium nitrate once you've made
it. You're saying to yourself, "Great! Now I have a chemical that is supposed
to blow things up, but I don't want to destroy anything [ahem?]." Well...

LAUGHING GAS
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[snicker!]

As a special treat for the dopers in the audience and since ammonium
nitrate has been on your mind for a few minutes, you might as well learn how to
make laughing gas from ammonium nitrate.

Laughing gas was one of the earliest anaesthetics. After a little while
of inhaling the gas the patient became so happy [ain't life great?] he couldn't
keep from laughing. Finally he would drift off to a pleasant sleep.

Some do-it-yourselfers have died while taking laughing gas. This is
because they has generated it through plastic bags while their heads were
inside. They were simply suffocating but were too bombed out to realize it.

The trick is to have a plastic clothes bag in which you generate a lot of
the gas. Then you stop generating the gas and hold a small opening of the bag
under your nose, getting plenty of oxygen in the meantime. Then, Whee!

To make it you start with ammonium nitrate bought from a chemical supply
house or which you have purified with 100% rubbing or wood alcohol.

First, dissolve a quantity of ammonium nitrate in some water. Then you
evaporate the water over the stove, while stirring, until you have a heavy
brine. When nearly all the moisture is out it should solidify instantly when a
drop is put on an ice cold metal plate.

When ready, dump it all out on a very cold surface. After a while, break
it up and store it in a bottle.

A spoonful is put into a flask with a one-hole stopper, with a tube
leading into a big plastic bag. The flask is heated with an alcohol lamp.

When the temperature in the flask reaches 480 F the gas will generate. If
white fumes appear the heat should be lowered as the stuff explodes at 600 F.

When the bag is filled, stop the action and get ready to turn on.

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Here is a way to synthesize Ammonium nitrate without having to buy the fertilizer:


Ammonium nitrate is formed by a simple double displacement reaction when the ammonium ion, NH4+, replaces the H+ ion from the nitric acid and bonds to the remaining nitrate ion, NO3, then the H+ ion forms water from the hydroxide ion, OH-, left by the ammonium ion.
The equation is: NH4OH + HNO3 = NH4NO3 + H2O

Into a 500-mL Erlenmeyer flask , add 100 mL of water then add 100 mL of concentrated nitric acid. Always add acid to water, not the reverse, because the acid will splash when water is added. Slowly add ammonium hydroxide from a beaker to the Erlenmeyer flask while stirring by swirling the flask occasionally until the mixture is alkaline to litmus paper. Keep the flask in a salt-ice bath to keep it cool, and add the ammonium hydroxide in small portions so it may cool a bit. If the reaction gets too hot it will instantly come to a boil and splatter acid all over the place. Remember that red litmus turns blue in the presence of base and blue turns red in the presence of acid. Gently boil the mixture until only a crust remains. Let the remaining water evaporate or heat gently to drive out the remaining moisture, you can use an oven for this. Ammonium nitrate will draw moisture from the air so keep it tightly sealed right after you are done heating it. If strongly heated the ammonium nitrate will decompose to form nitrous oxide, which is laughing gas, and then will begin to emit white fumes. If you see white fumes stop heating because that's one step from detonation, don't get too worried though the detonation temperature is several hundred degrees above the fumes stage.



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Deo can concentrated Nitric Acid and Ammonium Hydroxide be bought as an over the counter product or is it something i would have to order online?

Well, you should be able to get some Nitric acid and Ammonium Hydroxide from your local chemical supply store, but I personally have never bought any of my chemicals over the counter; I usually buy my online, it's much simpler, and they don't ask as many questions.


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nice copy and paste general havoc. Ammonium nitrate is mixed with fuel oil yes but IT DOESN'T REQUIRE DYNAMITE TO BE SET OFF. It can be set off with some easily and cheaply made AP in the house. Requires dynamite to be detonated? bull shit.

If you knew anything about AN and AN/FO you would have known it can be detonated with AP and wouldn't have had to copy and paste to make a false contribution to our forum. not only that, but you can get amonium nitrate PURE as a fertilizer in a garden store.

Jesus christ.

Mmm, delicious copypasta!

As it stands, AP will not reliably detonate AN unless is roughly equal proportions. Secondly, that method of making nitrous oxide will give you a cloud of assorted nitric oxides most of which will dissolve your throat and kill you VERY quickly.

banned for being a flaming fucktard.

YAY...some one got banned. All hail ghost, banner of idiots

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epic =D

adeoetrage thanks for the recipe but roughly using th measurements u wer talkin about,..about how big would th yield be and more importantly is this an effectiv [cost wise ] method for synthesizin ammonium nitrate?

Well, when I made it my final yield was between 50% and 60% (some of mine decomposed, have to be careful not to get it too hot), and I do consider it cost effective because the final product is pure Ammonium Nitrate, and pure Ammonium Nitrate is currently quite difficult to come by.


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