Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

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

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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.

Amen! Never dared to go back to my experiments with iodine crystals after one of my experiment spontaneously caught fire. But yes, blowing things up is a healthy youth activity, and effectively separates the wheat from the chaff. ;)

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.

I did a few experiments with match heads to see if I could use them as primer in home made ammunition. Never completed my experiment, but at least the match head part worked beautifully. You could set it off by whacking a small pile with a spoon.