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#1 ph30nix

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Posted 24 June 2005 - 11:46 PM

Hello,

i want to make a simple smoke generator from things i can use around the home.

I know about the potassium nitrate (6parts) and sugar (4parts) melted together, but is there any other possibilties that would be easy to get.

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#2 alany

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Posted 25 June 2005 - 10:57 AM

It really doesn't get much easier to source than Potassium Nitrate and Sugar.

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Posted 29 June 2005 - 06:19 PM

Even I can get Kno3, and I am broke and a amateur! if you PM me, and you can convince me you aren't just a N00b, then I might be able to tell you a website where you can get kno3 & sulphur relatively cheaply.

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#4 adamw

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Posted 02 July 2005 - 11:16 AM

Please note the *melting* part of the procedure is quite hazardous. If the mixture starts to turn darker in colour, remove the heat. If you see any smoke, get away fast!
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Posted 09 July 2005 - 11:10 PM

Hello

Please note the *melting* part of the procedure is quite hazardous. If the mixture starts to turn darker in colour, remove the heat. If you see any smoke, get away fast!

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I've heard a story about this, some guy got his whole house filled with smoke :P

Im quite young, so its not really that easy to get the things i need, i've heard about extracting Potassium nitrate from soil, is this a possibility?

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 02:01 PM

i've heard about extracting Potassium nitrate from soil, is this a possibility?

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Someone has been reading the "JRC" haven't they!!!

To answer your question; No. Just about the only thing you can extract fron soil is dirt :lol: .

#7 RegimentalPyro

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 08:09 PM

Not quite true.

KNO3 is formed by the actions of certain soil bearing bacteria on Ammonia and ammonia salts. This led in historical times to KNO3 extraction processes essentially revolving around the towns ordure [cess] pits.

I believe one recipe for making KNO3 began "Take the urine of a dead drunk man".

Anybody got any other information about how KNO3 was sourced in days gone by?

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 11:33 PM

I know that guy fawkes use to go round collecting s**t to make his potassium nitrate for the gunpowder plot. I cant remember if it was horse s**t, human s**t or theres a possibility that it was more like manure. Or both can be used. I'm sure both are high in nitrogen.

I think basically anything that is rotten has high levels of nitrogen.

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#9 Richard H

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 11:40 PM

Not quite true, it is believed he bought the gunpowder from the decendants of Pains Firework Company of Salisbury.

http://www.painsfire...uk/company3.htm

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 08:07 AM

Last night...no the night before I saw on BBC's "Rough Science" someone making a recrystalised KNSU "flare". He got the sugar from boiling sugarcane in a pot of water and the Potassium nitrate from the same process with bat droppings. It all was posible but how he got good quality potassium nitrate and made a succesful rocket after multiple tests in three days was a little far feched, as was the briliant purple of his touch paper. But I can garentee that you can buy Potassium nitrate, regardless of your age. ......www.gardendirect.co.uk......hint....hint.....
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#11 Richard H

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 10:37 AM

Bat droppings would probably yield guanidine nitrate, not potassium nitrate.

#12 pritch

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 04:06 PM

Well I watched a program with Tony Robinson where they were going round collecting crap saying this is how he did it....

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 07:22 PM

Collecting crap? sure it wasn't David Dickinson? hehe.

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Posted 12 July 2005 - 05:42 PM

For making salpeter, check out:
http://docsouth.unc....lt/leconte.html

Although it can be easily bought, its a project I'm quite interested in trying- too bad my parents won't let me put a nitre bed in their garden!

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Posted 12 July 2005 - 06:49 PM

If you are really desperate, go into your cellar / basement etc. There may be KNO3 forming on the walls if they are damp. This was my first source back in my early days! :)
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