Kno3

[budullewraagh]

.............

 

yes

 

there is a plant that makes it naturally. also look in abandoned barns. not quite wild, but yes.

 

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, KNO3 IS NOT AS COOL AS PEOPLE MAKE IT OUT TO BE

[Guest Duncan]

Would u know what plant..... im making a game that involves making gun powder and i need to know where to find the ingredients.

[jdurg]

Any plant that has been digested and then excreted by an animal. In other words, find a giant pile of crap and there will be KNO3 in there. I'm serious about this too.

[Guest Duncan]

great i guess ill make people find piles of shit. Thanks ive been looking forever.... wait is there any other way????

[budullewraagh]

no, there is a plant that actually makes KNO3 itself. when you burn it the plant pops and snaps and all. seriously. i forgot its name. it's a bit of an odd plant.

 

btw, gunpowder is made with potassium nitrate (saltpeter), carbon and sulfur powders mixed together

[Guest Duncan]

k thx again

[ed84c]

well KNO3 is actually when available, taken up by plants to supply Both N and K, so a plant will take it up when possible.

 

You say the plant 'makes it' are you sure it dusont just store it?

[Gilded]

"CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, KNO3 IS NOT AS COOL AS PEOPLE MAKE IT OUT TO BE"

 

It doesn't even look cool. You might even mistake a granular powder for sugar if you don't look too closely. Don't know if that would be much of a mistake if you are suffering from constipation though.

 

Btw, I burned some KNO3 with sucrose today, and it produced quite a bit of smoke. Burned through aluminum foil with ease too. Now I only need to find myself a hotplate or something to make a proper smokebomb mixture.

[budullewraagh]

"You say the plant 'makes it' are you sure it dusont just store it?"

no, it makes it

 

gilded, try some potassium chlorate and sucrose with a drop of H2SO4. much better.

[Gilded]

Surprisingly, I have sucrose, I could make or buy potassium chlorate, but getting concentrated H2SO4 isn't an easy task, no matter what YT might say.

[budullewraagh]

i dont think you need conc sulfuric

[Gilded]

I see. Is somewhere near 50% enough?

[budullewraagh]

i dunno. try it

[budullewraagh]

btw the plant that makes KNO3 is borage, also known as borago officianalis

[belongcyl]

it certainly can indeed, but considering it only decomposes at 513 Kelvin, any household cooker would be hard pushed to acheive that at FULL POWER!. so 100 to 150c isn`t going to do a thing to it other than drive off any water

[jarmenkill]

plastic sulphur? whats this?

(I know its a plastic, or is it)

if you pour melted sulfur in cool water you will see that:D