Materials that explode on contact

Discussion in 'Chemistry' started by USS Exeter, Dec 4, 2007.

  1. Donnal Registered Member

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    no dragan im in australia matey
     
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  3. draqon Banned Banned

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    hmmm..hmmmm....

    ask James R...maybe he knows
     
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  5. Echo3Romeo One man wolfpack Registered Senior Member

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    Mercury fulminate is a pretty awesome contact explosive.
     
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  7. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Sulfuric acid and water - if you mix them in the right order.
     
  8. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Oh, another point, you can not make mustard gas by mixing bleach and ammonia.

    The agent commonly referred to as mustard gas is HD Mustard gas, a Sulfur mustard, essentialy it is a Thioether (bis-(2-chloroethyl)sulfide). There are also H, HT, HL, and HQ Sulfur mustards, but they're blends of HD and other substances.

    There are some Nitrogen Mustards, but again, they're all di-chloro tert-amines (apart from one - tris-(2,chloroethyl) amine. So the claim that you can mix Sodium Hypochlorite and Ammonium Hyrdoxide together to produce mustard gas is erroneous.

    What it does produce, however, is chloramine, a substance that is violently unstable, except in dilute aq solution. Chloramine gets used as a disinfectant, and in water treatment.

    Nitrogen Mustard is itself an organic chloramine, but again, bare in mind that "Mustard Gas" refers to a specific Sulfur mustard.
     
  9. sly1 Heartless Registered Senior Member

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    hehe my favorite back in high school was "santeen" bombs.....

    basicly hydrochloric acid cointaining chemical, like the industrial grade toilet bowl cleaners....... and aluminum foil......and a 20'z pop bottle......

    loads of cheep fun......
     
  10. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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  11. K.FLINT Devil's advocate :D Registered Senior Member

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    ummm shhhhhh.....

    So many to choose from.

    Be aware though that by putting any answer here you invite certain agencies to download your hard drive {regardless of your fire wall} some subjects should be avoided or approached with a legitimate reason for the question.

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  12. Steve100 O͓͍̯̬̯̙͈̟̥̳̩͒̆̿ͬ̑̀̓̿͋ͬ ̙̳ͅ ̫̪̳͔O Valued Senior Member

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    Flourine and Ceasium

    Don't do it
     
  13. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Isn't Cesium radioactive?...or is there an element called Ceasium,
    Also, try exposing Francium to air see what happens.
     
  14. Non-Logical-Idea-Guy Fat people can't smile. Registered Senior Member

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    caesium and water - you gotta store it in oil though

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  15. Xylene Valued Senior Member

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    George Bush/Al Gore?
     
  16. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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    :roflmao:
     
  17. MetaKron Registered Senior Member

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    Maybe you should say "the wrong order."

    What about those experiments with alkali metals in water?

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY&feature=related

    Some of these actually exploded on contact.
     
  18. CarvedMercury Registered Member

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    Not many people can do it!
     
  19. MetaKron Registered Senior Member

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    Fluorine and cesium probably would not give you as potent an explosion as water and cesium unless you did something fancy. You have to get the components of the explosion together. When cesium and water mix, blobs of molten metal are fired through the water and spread out really fast, like a fuel-air bomb. There is enough containment to hold the force of the explosion together with the mixture long enough to force much more mixing of the chemicals. This takes place slow enough to do a thorough job and fast enough that the explosion looks like it takes place simultaneously.
     
  20. Trippy ALEA IACTA EST Staff Member

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    Well, that's a matter of perspective isn't it

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    What a sensible chemist considers the wrong order, someone trying to deliberately create an explosion would consider the right order.
     

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