Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.rec Subject: Re: Re: Re: Blowing things up Message-ID: <158@cvl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 16:34:22 EST Article-I.D.: cvl.158 Posted: Sat Mar 9 16:34:22 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 07:50:07 EST References: <579@unmvax.UUCP> <101600001@hplabs.UUCP> <732@unmvax.UUCP> <157@cvl.UUCP> Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 28 > > > Does anyone know an "easy" way to make Nitrogen Tri-iodide? > > > > > > I have yet to find a nice simple method that can be > > > implemented in any dorm. > > > > Here is the nice simple method: > > > > Take iodine (not iodine solution) and mix it with ammonia. > > Let it sit for a while and then run the mess through a paper towel. > > The lump of stuff will blow up as it dries out. > > I suggest reagent grade ammonia (ammonium hydroxide). also, it might be nice > to wash the stuff in ether ... Actually, 99% denatured alcohol works quite well and is very practical. Also convenient and more-or-less readily available. Xerox uses many pint-bottles of the material (shipped in cases of 12) and it seems to wash about right. Whatever you do, WEAR GLOVES and dispose of them asap. Half a bottle-cap full is usually more than enough to make small craters in cement. Unnamed locals once determined the proper amount to be put under the leg of a chair, such that the occupant would recieve quite a surprise. However, this required weight on the chair...detonation of unoccupied chairs revealed enough power to catapult the chair across the room. Gosh, each classroom could be a minefield. I'd better watch out. -dave