The Smoke bomb recipes in this website are great, but it is hard to find saltpetre (potassium Nit.). If you go to a drugstore and ask for saltpetre from behind the pharmacy counter, it costs about $2.19 for 6 ounces. Yesterday I tried combining the two outdoors on a campfire, it lit up. Nice Chemistry! I'm going to try to melt the sugar indoors, them add the saltpetre, after it is carmelized. 4 cups caramelized sugar to 6 cups saltpetre.
I'll post my 2nd try outcome in a couple days.
My smoke bomb mixture/creation worked. I used 4 oz. of sugar, and 1/4 cup of light corn syrup. I mixed them touroughly together, and heated them on my kitchen stove for about 1o-15 minutes on my kitchen stove, stirring constantly.
NOTE: Not stirring causes the mixture to become black, smoke, and it won't work for the smoke bomb.
The mixture should be done once it reaches a peanutbutter color. If the peanut butter color becomes red, thats ok. Its red from the light corn syrup colling down. Right when u take it off the stove, bring it outside and pour in the 6 oz. of Potassium Nitrate. It will go back to peanut-butter looking, and will cool down and harden fast.
Pour into containers, add wick, cool down and VOILA! done.
Works great, smoke, fire column (1-2ft. high)
TRY IT!