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Two methods for preparing nitrogen triiodide and ammonium triiodide, both of which are powerful and shock-sensitive explosives. A detailed list of materials and procedures, as well as safety precautions. Method 1 involves creating nitrogen triiodide using iodine and ammonia, while method 2 details the production of ammonium triiodide crystals using iodine and ammonia. Both methods require caution and careful handling due to their explosive nature and potential health hazards.
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Method #1:
This is a very powerful and shock sensitive explosive. Never store it and be careful for air movements, and other tiny things could set it off.
Materials:
2-3g Iodine 15ml Conc. Ammonia 8 Sheets of filter paper 50ml Beaker Feather on a 10ft pole Ear plugs Tape Spatula Stirring rod
Add iodine to ammonia in the beaker. Stir, let stand for 5 minutes. Do the following within 5 minutes!! Retain the solid, and pour off the liquid. Scrape the brown solid onto a stack of four sheets of filter paper. Divide solid into four parts, putting each on a sheet of dry filter paper. Tape in position. Leave to dry undisturbed for at least 30 minutes. To detonate, touch with the feather. Wear the ear plugs while doing this...it is very loud!
Method #2:
AMMONIUM TRIIODIDE CRYSTALS
Ammonium triiodide crystals are foul-smelling purple colored crystals that decompose under the slightest amount of heat, friction, or shock, if they are made with the purest ammonia (ammonium hydroxide) and iodine. Such crystals are said to detonate when a fly lands on them, or when an ant walks across them. Household ammonia, however, has enough impurities, such as soaps and abrasive agents, so that the crystals will detonate when thrown,crushed, or heated. Upon detonation, a loud report is heard, and a cloud of purple iodine gas appears about the detonation site. Whatever the unfortunate surface that the crystal was detonated upon will usually be ruined, as some of the iodine in the crystal is thrown about in a solid form, and iodine is corrosive. It leaves nasty, ugly, permanent brownish-purple stains on whatever it contacts. Iodine gas is also bad news, since it can damage lungs, and it settles to the ground and stains things there also. Touching iodine leaves brown stains on the skin that last for about a week, unless they are immediately and vigorously washed off. While such a compound would have little use to a serious terrorist, a vandal could utilize them in damaging property. Or, a terrorist could throw several of them into a crowd as a distraction, an action which would possibly injure a few people, but frighten almost anyone, since a small crystal that not be seen when thrown produces a rather loud explosion.
to dry for about an hour. Make sure that they are not too close to any lights or other sources of heat, as they could well detonate. While they are still wet, divide the wet material into about eight chunks.
And please BE VERY CAREFUL and USE COMMON SENSE!!