Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 21:49:25 +0100, D wrote:

I think making gun powder is very simple. There's loads of youtube
videos,
and I imagine that a couple of pipe bombs would be far easier and more
explosive than car battery bombs.

When I was a kid I could walk down the street to the local pharmacy and
buy potassium nitrate and flowers of sulfur. The pharmacist probably knew
what I was up to but kids were expected to blow things up back then. I
could also get iodine crystals for my nitrogen triiodide experiments. It's
too unstable to be very useful but it does make a nifty purple cloud when
it blows.

I only remember one kid getting injured and that was from the low rent
activity of stuffing match heads into a CO2 capsule. Darwinian selection
at work.