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It's sad how little use over 99% aluminum, titanium and such have these days. All alloys. Luckily, there are nice men in the world who run pyrotechnics companies.

Yep. I thought that the temperature might have something to do with it (as it usually does).

Dextrin is also available at almost every pyrotechnics company, if someone has access to one. I think United Nuclear (once again) sells it too.

It has 7 electrons on its outer orbit, making it a big mean electron stealing machine like chlorine.

No I was just kidding, as some aluminum powder made stuff tends to be... rather unstable, if you will. I think I'm going to start with thermites; you can't hurt yourself with those unless you light them on your foot or something.

I see. Maybe it was an inter-stitial formation, or then I had been sniffing terpentine again. :<

You could get the spinning atom, spinning rad. symbol and nuclear blast .gif-animations from United Nuclear's uranium ore/other radioactive stuff-page (I'm not sure if they're copyrighted though... the spinning atom looks awfully like Atomic Health in Duke Nukem 3D ).

You're not steering me wrong? About blowing myself up perhaps with unstable aluminum plastic-like explosives?

That was freaking awesome! What was in those?

No problem. It would be nice to have this confirmed by YT or someone who knows more about this stuff, though.

How fine the bench grinder-made powder is? Are they like filings or more like flour or table sugar?

As you can see from the picture, a bench grinder isn't probably the best option: It gets dull from the soft aluminum that sticks on it.

I'm not quite sure if you can even make thermite-grade Al-powder with a bench grinder. :|

Hey, are you sure it wasn't a PLASTIC rod. Or some crappy glass. "H2SO4 ---> H2O + SO3" I'm almost certain, because that's the way it's formed.

All I need is a goddamn magnesium ribbon, some rust and pyro grade Al powder. It's thermite time! Edit: Lance, I cut some into tiny pieces with scissors. It didn't work out too well, but it would have been perfect for an alkaline drain cleaner/Al-foil bomb.

Aren't the tuna/fruit/such cans pure Al? It's hard to get aluminum powder these days, it's surprisingly regulated.

Hmm, I think it is. Is it possible for it to break up into a sulfur atom and an ozone molecule? Or SO + O2? I don't think SO is a gas. And about the bubbling, if it's really conc. H2SO4, it's as vicious as a rabid wolverine and attacks anything it can. It might also be that the yellow came from the impurities.

If only I could find a similar company in the Scandinavia area (or even better Finland). :<

Yep, and I really believe that the yellow color is from SO3, since H2O and SO3 can form H2SO4, so it makes sense.

Talking about fluorides of xenon, have they been able to make solid at room temp. molecules of all noble gases? All I know of is some sort of lithium-krypton compound (kryptonite ).

Whoah! Those carbonates are daaamn cheap. Where has this page been hiding all my life. And 1kg 300mesh aluminum for £13.95! Sadly it's not available yet. :<

I meant that there were impurities on the glass rod, if bubbles formed when you put it in the acid. That seems like an acid attack to me.

You can distill just about anything that has been fermented (believe me, we Finns have a looong history with that ). Fruits, potatoes, all kinds of stuff. Cherries and grapes are a good choice. Remember: Distill it thrice, and it will taste nice. By the way, the record of percents of commercially sold alcohol is held by Estonia (surprise surprise). They sold 98% distilled from potatoes in the 20's or something.

Even with minor impurities on the glass, you will most likely see bubbles when sulfuric acids attack them (depends a bit on the impurities though). That's why H2SO4 is good for cleaning test tubes and such.

*Sigh* I only have done stuff with H2SO4 during a chemistry lesson once in my life, and it was 5-10% or something. About the yellow color: Isn't superconcentrated sulfuric acid just plain transparent, without the shade of yellow? Could it be that with enough heat H2SO4 says "screw this, I'm outta here" and turns into water vapor (H2O) and sulfur trioxide which causes the yellow shade? Since I don't think H2SO4 maintains its molecular form when it becomes gaseous. Or maybe it does. Heck, maybe it's just better to ask YT.