tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post2438186041494496188..comments2024-03-28T00:27:14.676-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: About that exploding toilet,Firehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-39630702626917234112012-10-19T22:16:31.598-07:002012-10-19T22:16:31.598-07:00Your video reminds me of an experiment I did with ...Your video reminds me of an experiment I did with my then new to me .22-250. I was trying different bullets to see which ones "worked" the best. Several then new on the market plastic milk jugs full of water, distance, around 75-100 yards. Conclusion: At that range at those velocities, it didn't make any difference that could be seen. All the jugs disintigrated. I didn't have room to do it further away, but magpies and rockchucks in E Wash. disintigrated at distances of 300-500 yds with any .22 jacketed soft point I tried in it. That's where I saw my first "pink mist". <br /><br />No hand held video cameras then, just 8mm movies which were short, crappy and expensive. I spent my money on primers, powd......you know.<br /><br />Gerry N.Gerry N.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-73658753080771677562012-10-19T09:19:19.167-07:002012-10-19T09:19:19.167-07:00ammonia and sodium (or possibly calcium) hypochlor...ammonia and sodium (or possibly calcium) hypochlorite, cool conditions and albumin as a catalyst.<br /><br />It's the Olin process for making hydrazine (one of hydrazine's uses is for rocket fuel)<br /><br />The other possibility (but a bit less likely) is chlorine gas from bleach reacting with ammonia, to give nitrogen trichloride.<br /><br />It's a dense yellow liquid, waaaay more unstable than nitroglycerine.<br /><br />the ingredients are cheap and the stuff is powerful enough, but it is so, so unstable and sensitive, no one has ever managed to commercialize the stuff.<br /><br />Nitrogen tri-halides were my fascination when I was a (very nerdy) teenager.<br /><br />I'd end up behind bars if I had a hobby like that now.<br /><br />I didn't loose any body parts, but I really thought I'd burst my ear drums when one lot went off unexpectedly.<br /><br />nitrogen tri-halides are so sensitive, that even the minute movement of shrinkage while it dries, will set the solid ones off.<br /><br />annon - for obvious reasonsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com