/pyro/ - Kaboom

I think this is basically what I was hoping for out of the community as an end goal.

Safe, reliable instructions for all level of skill.

>>17

nice, I think a good chapter made of "how to not lose your fingers" would be a good one, a list of what materials are considered wearable and blast proof when working with low amounts of chemicals.

>>21

Well, as a rule of thumb, you avoid wearing anything polyester or polymer like the plague while working with anything flammable or explosive. Wool or Cotton is best.

If you wear polymer, and it catches fire, then you'll get much more serious burns than with cotton or wool, because it will melt and stick to your skin.

Blast proof stuff that you can wear is hard to come by, and expensive as hell, but you can at least wear soft or hard armor, and a decent face shield, welders mask, or high quality (I recommend save phace) air shit mask. These will help save you from shrapnel, and just shrapnel, but that's better than nothing. It is theoretically possible to make your own slightly blast resistant clothing by layering two different types of foam together behind a hard armor plate, but it's probably not effective enough to be worth the trouble.

I'll go find a good list of chemical incompatibilities real quick after this…..

>>26

http://sv-safety.epfl.ch/page-94463-en.html

http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/incompatible.html

Off the top of my head….

Ammonium Nitrate and Chlorates

Ammonium Nitrate and untreated Aluminum

Ammonium Nitrate and Magnesium dust

Hydrogen Peroxide and organic anything, it's prone to exploding and shit.

Nitric acid and anything you'd rather not have catch fire or explode.

I'd assume you all know about bleach and what not to do with it, but just to be sure, it has all sorts of nasty problems about generating Chlorine gas or Chloramine blister agents when mixed with even simple chemicals.

Bumping with a little thing of my own. More of a little factoid than anything really.

Generally speaking, explosives work by the action of producing pressure via the rapid change from a solid or liquid state into a gaseous state of matter. Azides are a good example of this, being primarily composed of nitrogen gas trapped into a solid form.

An interesting exception to this, however, is flash powder and explosive thermite mixtures. Rather than chemically generating extreme gas volume, I am of the understanding that they generate a massive amount of heat capable of greatly exciting both the air around them and the air intermingled into the space between the particles of the fuel and oxidizer. Most flash powders generate little to no "new" gasses; the vast majority of their explosive power comes solely from their ability to super heat pockets of whatever atmosphere they are in.