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If would be the actual metal, to my understanding. Here in Australia they have tough new laws, and you cant just buy it as it can be used in a hazardous way. There are some online places in Australia that sells them but they take down your Ph.Number and address before hand and they foward them to the federal police. If theres some kinda terrorist attack they would have your house to search first. Not a good thing if you have a chemical collection. edit: Could the powder be made from foil using mortar and pestle?

Yea, i know it's in Car Batteries, but the it's difficult to find a used one on the street, and buying a new one costs a lot $60 AUD

hmm i say this because there no way of optaining Sulfuric Acid in Sydney, Australia.. atleast to my knowledge, seems like i wasted $10

hello, im intrested in making nitric acid from potassium nitrate and hydrochloric acid(30%) would this process be possible?

Let me see if i have it right; I have a cup with saltwater, 2 iron nails and a 18vdc adaptor. So what im thinking is, you strip down the positive wire and the negative and you tie one wire on to one nail, and you tie the other one on the other nail. Stick it in the saltwater, one of the nails being Positive starts bubbling.... So after say 1 hour i would have all these brown/greenish stuff floating around. So now i would try to evaporate the water by heating it and the results would be iron oxide right? what i got was some brownish/red powder. sorry if this is offtopic.

Doesnt Iron Hydroxide turn in to Iron Oxide when its heated?

it colapses on me, the dextrin method isnt as great as YT2095 says it is, i find that melting the ingredients pyromaster22 has given works nicely and much better than just leaving it as powder

I was reading somewhere that cornflour in america is diffrent to Cornflour in Britain...I live in Australia, i got a bag which says "Corn Flour" and on the back it says ingredient: Wheat Starch(Gluten) and its like 90% carbonhydrate (and no sugar) is this correct for dextrin?

ok this mixture works very very good i did this today.. just 30minutes ago 40grams potassium + 25grams sugar after that, put 1/4 of teapoon of Iron Oxide and mix it this worked much better than the other one, asoon and it lit up, i didnt have time to run away, it just went streight in the air for arround 3 seconds and it disapeared, very fast too

ok i did a test today. i added more aluminium to the mixture, if u dont mine.. anyway i melted it and i rolled it up in paper (about 1 teaspoon worth of mixture) i lit it outside and it span about 6 or 7 times, then it went in the air, over my house and landed 100 metres away..

i understand what your saying and i was well aware of that,and i have made bunch of previous tests. it probably sounds sloppy, but im a person that has a sht load of time so i tent to do pointless things

i was experimenting a bit today... so this is what i did ------ 100grams - 1 kno3 : 1sugar 40grams - Iron Oxide (atleast i think thats what i made using salt water, nail and DC electricity, didnt filter anything, i just emptyed out most of the clear liquid and then boiled the rest - final colour was dark brown, not even sure that the nail was iron either...) 20grams - Magnelium (filed down from metal shapeners) ----- so i mixed them well, got 1 teaspoon of the mixture in a metal pan and added a few drops of water to the mixture. Then i let it sit under flames for 2 minutes with constant stiring. Then when it was done, i left it to harden a bit and rolled it up in paper and lit it up.. it went from one side of my backyard to the other side (70metres??) i will try a another one aimed at the sky tommarow

heating sugar + kno3 in the oven, wouldnt the mixture ignite while its getting heated?

i know if its only kno3+sugar, when water is added and then melting the mixture over fire, then left to dry, it turns hard and its "WHITE" colour.. it makes a much better smoke bomb as it lasts 8x longer with same smoke output... also, if u just add a little bit of water without heating it, if u leave it to dry, it will start to crumble and fall apart when u touch it

Hears a nice turtorial on "Sorbitol and kno3 propellant" http://www.trailertrashaerospace.com/propellant_page.htm i havent tried it my self tho.. still have to get my hands on Sulfur

Would there be performance differents if Charcoal is used instread of Sugar? Im thinking that if you use really thick casing then it wouldnt go very far, since it would be more heavier