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Re: JFA all wet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Wed Oct 13 13:18:39 1999

From: Eric Cordian <emc@chao.insync.net>
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Anonymous writes:

> At 11:18 PM 10/12/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
> >[Note by JFA: who darn cares!  Mix aluminium power, ammonium 
> >nitrate (fertilizer),and water and you get a low sensitivity but 
> >extremely powerfull explosive.  Or concoct some more tried-and-

> Idiot.  Add water to NH4NO3 and you get high nitrogen fertilizing liquid,
> and disable your ANFO.  Lame ass.

Aluminum has such a strong desire to oxidize that it has to be reduced
from its ore by electrolysis.  I doubt a little moisture is going to 
stand in the way of the reaction.  Damp thermite still burns nicely, 
last I looked.

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"


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