HOW TO MAKE C4
Intro: HOW TO MAKE C4
Plastic Explosive
This explosive is a phenol derivative. It is toxic and the
explosive compounds made from picric acid are poisonous if inhaled,
ingested, or handled and absorbed through the skin. The toxicity of
this explosive restricts its use due to the fact that over exposure in
most cases causes liver and kidney failure and sometimes death if
immediate treatment is not obtained.
This explosive is a cousin to T.N.T. but is more powerful than
it's cousin. It's the first explosive used militarily and was adopted
in 1888 as an artillery shell filler. Originally this explosive was
derived from coal tar but thanks to modern chemistry you can make this
explosive easily in approximately three hours from acetylsalicylic
acid.(aspirin purified).
This procedure involves dissolving the acetylsalicylic acid in
warm sulfuric acid and adding sodium or potassium nitrate which
nitrates the purified aspirin. The whole mixture is then drowned in
water and filtered to obtain the final product. This explosive is
called trinitrophenol. Care should be taken to ensure that this
explosive is stored in glass containers. Picric acid will form
dangerous salts when allowed to contact all metals except tin and
aluminum. These salts are a primary explosive and are super sensitive.
They will also cause the detonation of the picric acid.
Next needed is aspirin. The cheaper brands work best but buffered
brands should be avoided. Powder these tablets to a fine consistency.
To extract the acetylsalicylic acid from this powder place this powder
in methyl alcohol and stir vigorously. Not all of the powder will
dissolve. Filter this powder out of the alcohol. Again wash this powder
that was filtered out of the alcohol with more alcohol but with a
lesser amount than the first extraction. Again filter the remaining
powder out of the alcohol. Combine the now clear alcohol and allow it
to evaporate in a pyre dish. When the alcohol has evaporated there will
be a surprising amount of crystals in the bottom of the pyrex dish.
Take forty grams of these purified acetylsalicylic acid crystals
and dissolve them in 150 ml. of sulfuric acid (98%, specify gravity
1.8) and heat to dissolve all the crystals. This heating can be done
in a common electric frying pan with the thermostat set on 150 deg. F.
and filled with a good cooking oil.
When all the crystals have dissolved in the sulfuric acid take
the beaker, that you've done all this dissolving in (600 ml.), out of
the oil bath. This next step will need to be done with a very good
ventilation system. It is a good idea to do any chemistry work such as
the whole procedure and any procedure in this book with good
ventilation or do it outside. Slowly start adding 58 g. of sodium
nitrate or 77 g. of potassium nitrate to the acid mixture in the beaker
very slowly in small portions with vigorous stirring. A red gas
(nitrogen trioxide) will be formed and this should be avoided. The
mixture is likely to foam up and the addition should be stopped until
the foaming goes down to prevent the overflow of the acid mixture in
the beaker. When the sodium or potassium nitrate has been added the
mixture is allowed to cool somewhat (30- 40 deg. C.). The solution
should then be dumped slowly into twice it's volume of crushed ice and
water. Brilliant yellow crystals will form in the water. These should
be filtered out and placed in 200 ml. of boiling, distilled water.
Allow this to cool and then filter the crystals out of the water.
These crystals are very, very pure trinitrophenol. Place these
crystals in a pyrex dish, put that in an oil bath and heat it to 80
deg. C. and keep it there for 2 hours. This temperature is best
maintained and checked with a thermometer. Powder the crystals in small
quantities to a face powder consistency. Combine these crystals (by
weight) with 10% wax and 5% Vaseline which you should heat to melting
temperature and poured into the crystals. The mixing is best done by
kneading together with gloved hands. This explosive should have a
useful plasticity range of 0-40 deg. C.. The detonation velocity should
be around 7000 m/sec.. It is toxic to handle but simply made from
common ingredients and is suitable for most demolition work requiring a
moderately high detonation velocity. It is very suitable for shaped
charges and some steel cutting charges. It is not as good an explosive
as C-4 or other R.D.X. based explosives but it is much easier to make.
Again this explosive is very toxic and
should be treated with great care. AVOID HANDLING BARE-HANDED,
BREATHING DUST AND FUMES. AVOID ANY CHANCE OF INGESTION.
AFTER UTENSILS ARE USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THIS EXPLOSIVE
RETIRE THEM FROM THE KITCHEN AS THE CHANCE OF POISONING IS NOT
WORTH IT. IF MANUFACTURED AS ABOVE, SHOULD BE SAFE IN STORAGE
BUT WITH ANY HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVE STORAGE IS NOT RECOMMENDED AND
EXPLOSIVES SHOULD BE CREATED AS NEEDED.
A V O I D C O N T A C T W I T H A L L M E T A L S
E X E P T T I N A N D A L U M I N U M ! ! !
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