woelen Posted April 22, 2006 Posted April 22, 2006 Darkblade is right. It is silver fulminate. These in fact are normal small pieces of stone (gravel), which are covered by a VERY tiny layer of silver fulminate. The pure compounds is exceedingly sensitive and even only 100 mg of the pure compounds gives a very loud boom.
TATER Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 This is not some random pyro question I always wanted to know this. What is in snaps or drop poppers those little rocks wrapped up in paper that pop when you throw them against a hard surface, what makes them pop? I always thought that the active ingredient in poppers was a minute amount of nitrogen triodide
TATER Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 Never mind,i just realized that nitrogen triodide is highly un stable and would explode in shipping the boxes
John Cuthber Posted January 31, 2007 Posted January 31, 2007 Perhaps you should have read before you posted.
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