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yes, but it is possible, just like it is possible to have liquid carbon dioxide even though it readily sublimes at stp

unless they use, say, tetranitromethane and fluorine nitrate as oxidizers

well, it all depends on how resourceful the subjects are

please properly use that word

heh, at least it isnt a permanganate. the dioxide isn't so reactive

funny you mention the jar-in-kettle-of-water method; that's what i used at first. it's great for breaking the match heads apart. after filtering the white powder initially recovered (sulfur), i found that boiling the water out of my beaker was very, very difficult, so i used tongs and held my beaker over my stove (because my stove only goes to 100 celcius). to prove a precipitate powder to be potassium chlorate, try igniting it; it will decompose yielding [math]O_2[/math] if you want fun, add sulfur and ignite; it should burn with vigor. also, alkaline earth metals make for big reactions.

where'd you get that from? if you like hydrogen peroxide, 40-45% can be recovered from glow sticks.

it would probably be weaker because the molecules are not held in place when the diamond is melted, and thus lose their perfect crystaline structure

that's very, very odd. im thinking you had some type of reducing agent in there because the chlorate does not explode with higher temps.

diamonds are very, very easy to destroy. you can melt them, smash them, etc

sounds like another republican gunning for totalitarian militarism.

excellent response, monkey. thanks for being rational, bloodhound. too often i see neo-cons bashing kerry for his service while in the most hypocritical ways possible. one day they may learn

dude dont be racist

i heard rumors the british got him a month before iraq happened

kerry wasn't AS cool as the records show

what was the primary objective? that's not an excuse. if you are being told that your nation will be attacked and you do nothing, the blood is directly on your hands. got sources? whats your problem with hispanics?

it's not so black and white as you make it out to be. "fight for freedom" as opposed to "terrorist/dictator indust deaths". it's not so polar.

don't be ignorant. clinton had daily meetings to prevent terrorist attacks and prevented an attack in los angeles. bush came into office and took more vacation time in his first 8 months than any previous president had in all of his terms (yes, more than franklin delano roosevelt, who happened to serve for 16 years). we did? they're still fighting and we're not accomplishing our mission.

actually, the republicans attacked kerry first on this issue

i don't, but if the republicans want to make an issue of it, they should at least have good grounds to base their argument on.

oh man, i am so flattered. thanks for the compliment. answering your question, i read. a lot. along with that, i'm a member of these forums AND 2 other chem specific forums, and i talk with chemists often. it's difficult to describe, but i've always had an affinity for chem. i see the world in atoms and molecules

truth? what is that? so many veterans can and have vouched for him. the more important thing to note is that bush evaded the draft. nomatter what you say about kerry's military record, you can never call bush a more loyal soldier

well, think of water. it is [math]H_2O[/math] and it is very stable. think of oxygen. it is, well, an OXIDIZING agent. in fact, the second most effective oxidizer of all the elements. now, when you think of peroxides, do you think of highly explosive unstable oxidizing agents of death? i most certainly do. so, it works well for hydrogen peroxide. if you get 70% that is as far as you'd conceivably want to go. at 70% it blows up on contact with any metal or organic. if you want to make a really, really crazy reaction, just add a strong reducing agent, like, say, an alkali/alkaline earth metal. lithium borohydride, anybody? cheers! if you want to know how to concentrate it, i refuse to tell you again. i have mentioned how to do so twice already.

the [math]H_2O_2[/math] releases [math]O_2[/math] on decomposition because of an organic or metal catalyst. the metal/organic catalyst reduces the peroxide, which yields enough energy to cause decomposition. see my above post; to concentrate it, put it into a freezer. water freezes at 0 celcius while [math]H_2O_2[/math]freezes at -11 celcius.

did you not use water???