KNO3

Does anyone know where one can obtain Potassium Nitrite, otherwise known as Salt Peter? I need some to make some.....stuff.....

Oh what the heck. Ahsmatics, don't do this. If one heats 4 parts sugar to 6 parts KNO3 over a low flame, pours mixture into a container, and (once solidified) sets aflame, a very entertaining billowing of smoke ensues. I've done this as a science project, with the salt peter supplied by my teacher, but I want to make a pound of this stuff, and I am not in school anymore.

I've heard you can get it a home depot, but does anyone know a more reliable website/store? I've had problems with home depot before (PVC Piping for a potatoe gun).

http://www.cheap-chemicals.com/chemi...FRCzgAodcVeEmA

I would try this..very cheap(according to the site).

Sounds like something out of the Anarchists Handbook...
Just be careful.

these guys have said it, but be careful.

It is in the anarchist's cookbook. That's not how I figured it out however.

Thanks for the concern to, but I have done this before. It's not dangerous at all unless you have breathing problems. It burns extreamly slow, and isn't very hot.

Now, cramming a glass bottle full of dry ice, that was rather stupid. Just to inforce how stupid it was, I found glass shards embedded in tree's 500 metres away, plus the cops came to see what made the huge noise that could be heard 2 miles away.

Originally Posted by oizys

It is in the anarchist's cookbook. That's not how I figured it out however.

Thanks for the concern to, but I have done this before. It's not dangerous at all unless you have breathing problems. It burns extreamly slow, and isn't very hot.

Now, cramming a glass bottle full of dry ice, that was rather stupid. Just to inforce how stupid it was, I found glass shards embedded in tree's 500 metres away, plus the cops came to see what made the huge noise that could be heard 2 miles away.

I've head of cases where kids have done this, and gotten in major trouble. And the sound is amazing when it happens, should have ear-plugs, or it could be ear-damaging.

I think the cases where people put the dry ice in 2-liter bottles to blow up mailboxes is a lot funnier.

Bah dry ice... Thermite is where it's at! Now thats awesome stuff. Wonder what happens if you put dry ice on burning thermite...

Thermite is the one that can burn a hole clear through an engine block, right?

I havn't read the anarchists cookbook in a year or so, so I'm forgetting all these fancy words. :/

Thermite is an extreamly hot reaction between Iron Oxide (rust) and Aluminum. I've never seen an expolsion using it, but once lit, it is devestating. You need something hotter than a blowtorch to light it though, usually a magnesium ribbon. Me and a friend made some one day, and set it on the hood of my dads old broken car. it melted the hood, the block, the axle, the pavment the car was on...
And this was only the size of a quarter! You want to know how hot this really is? If made right it can vaporize carbon steel! That's HOT!

Well, I got the saltpetre. Only 100 grams though . I stupidly asked for two bottles, as it's behind the counter, and they said they didn't have any more. I went to three other drug stores, and they wouldn't sell it to me, but I know they have it!!!

I guess it does seem a bit suspisious for an 18 year old to be buying saltpetre, but oh well.