The exact temperature doesn’t matter too much so long as it dissolves all of the etn, just make sure it stays below 60c.

Neither. Organic peroxides are quite dangerous because their sensitivity is so variable. I’ve made hmtd before and the sensitivity seemed workable, but I’ve read that depending on how old it is or how it was prepared, there’s always a danger that it could go off from the slightest stimulus. Just because it probably won’t explode randomly doesn’t mean it can’t. I’ve been experimenting with etn as a primary. If you want to do your own research on it, look up etn heatshock caps. Also, I live in a country where some chemicals are quite hard to get. However, in the states and most other countries, you can probably get the chemicals required to make NAP. I’ve heard that’s a really good primary. If you do decide to use either tatp or hmtd, take a whole load of precautions. Act like they could explode at any moment. I’ve done some reading and the internet can’t really decide which is more sensitive, but I think it’s more a matter of how pure it is. Make sure to rinse it with some methanol so there aren’t any contaminants that can raise the sensitivity and danger. Stay safe!

@@mana3109 You are indeed the best MANA😁, yes I made HMTD just to see the detonation and sensitivity and that I made as little as possible and you are right Perfect primary is NAP that is true but in my place Aminoguanidine is very difficult to get but in my place there is a lot of nickel yes I have the intention to synthesize Guanidine maybe and thank you for your advice Mana, and be more enthusiastic in making content!!

I don’t think potassium nitrate dissolves in pure sulfuric in any meaningful quantity. Sulfuric acid does react with nitrate salts to make nitric acid and sulfates. Sulfates are sometimes quite insoluble. Magnetic stirring also won’t help you much even if you did have it since it struggles with slurries. Were you trying to make nitric acid?

@@mana3109 I was making etn.

That doesn't matter much, use any

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 CuO?

@@MarineCy copper oxide. It's pretty easy to make by boiling a copper salt with sodium hydroxide or you can buy it.

I think I might have made a mistake with the number. According to my notebook, I should have added at least 33g of sulphuric, but more doesn’t hurt at all and you may need to add some more to keep the viscosity down. I added an extra splash later in the nitration for that reason. Basically, the exact amount doesn’t really matter so long as it’s about 4x the mols of the erythritol or more. As for the purity of the sulfuric, it probably doesn’t matter too much, so long as it’s very high concentration. I’ve personally never had any issues using drain cleaner grade sulfuric for my experiments. Distilling it may make the reaction *slightly* better, but compared to how much of a dangerous nightmare sulfuric is to distill with it’s 340c boiling point for very little improvement, it simply makes no sense. On that note, I probably could have gotten away just fine with unpurified erythritol as well, but recrystallizing it was quick and easy, so I did it regardless. Glad you liked the video!

@@bashkillszombies Do you know a magical technique to prevent the liquid dripping down? I’m all ears if you actually have anything constructive to share.

@@mana3109use a glass stir rod pointing into the container you want to pour into, while connecting it with the beaker or glass you’re pouring from

Use a glass stir rod placed along the spout to direct the flow. ​@@mana3109

@@mana3109 he’s right, do it slower and/or use stirring rod

If you need to ask this, you shouldn't be attempting this. This is like going to a gunsmithing video and asking which end goes bang.

@@bashkillszombies yeah this is why these videos need to be taking down. no one needs to know this

Bro... Do some research before you mess with this stuff, that is wildly dangerous. You need to be very careful purifying etn if you plan to store it for any amount of time, otherwise it gets increasingly sensitive and dangerous. DISPOSE OF YOUR ETN IMMEDIATELY or recrystallize it safely, keeping the temperature below 60c and away from any heating elements, like in the latter part of my video. Please be careful and safe!!!

@@ChemisLabNo.999 if it starts to turn yellow just do another recrystallization and it's good to go again. If it's really clean of acids it is good for years.

Thx very much ,i will remove acid thxx

Jesus...

@@rayxfinkle8328 he is king 🙏 👑

Explosive

A solution with a bit of base dissolved in it, in this case sodium bicarbonate.

Urea also does the job. You should recrystalise 2-3 times from IPA to remove all traces from acid for the sake of product stability.

The bottle said 99.9%. It was a only a few bucks from the local grocery store.

What exactly does melt cast mean? I have heard that a lot on energetic forums

Not entirely true. ETN is a secondary explosive only while solid, however when heated above 60c it melts and becomes several times more sensitive than TATP. Because of this property, it's possible to get ETN to fully detonate on its own just with heat, given it's in sufficiently large quantity and somewhat confined. Melt casting it also raises the detonation velocity above 8kms, but you need to be REALLY careful and have good safety precautions since melted ETN has a tendency to relieve hobby chemists of their appendages.

@@TheTyler701 Melt casting an explosive means melting it then pouring it into your desired charge

I don't really have a good way of making primaries right now that aren't organic peroxides, so it's actually sort of flipped. Instead of being a slightly unstable secondary, it's more like an relatively stable primary :) Will probably make RDX sometime down the line, have some hexamine purified I can use.

It looks like your set up well enough. A primary you could make in a beaker is Nickel Aminoguanidine Perchlorate or NAP. That is my new favorite.

@@BearValleyPyro where I live, aminoguanidine is pretty much impossible to find as an individual and I don’t think I’m up to making cyanamide and hydrazine to make it myself anytime soon.

PETN is more stable

@@seventeenshaun6424 it is, and I’ve already made some a while back. Only issue is it’s pretty much impossible to set off without a primary, so I still need to investigate primaries.

I could make the nitric in situ, but I don't have very much ammonium nitrate and I've heard the other nitrate salts make for a very nasty reaction. I had some rfna on hand, so I used that. There was a little bit of bicarb in the recrystallization like you suggested, might have forgotten to mention it. I used IPA instead of acetone because I'd heard that acetone can cause some issues. Thanks for the suggestions though!

​​@@mana3109acetone doesn't cause any issues, its just that the crystals of ETN are quite flaky and the density is poor,every solvant will give a different shape to the ETN crystals. To overcome the poor density of recrystalized ETN from various solvants, you can melt and cool the ETN to form high density meltcast ETN. Once cooled to room temp, the ETN chunks can be crushed into a coarse powder.

I just have buddy’s in IDF and we got extras we couldn’t squeeze into more pagers and radio UHF phones.

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​@@ДмитрийЖуравлев-ж3х Mixing Ammonium nitrate with some sort of soda (NaHCO3, Na₂CO₃, NaOH), you will get sodium nitrate and ammonia. The ammonia will evaporate off, make sure you have good ventilation. You can find the exact ratios yourself by figuring out the stoichiometry. If you can't figure it out yourself, you shouldn't be playing with these chemicals. Just like ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate is also an oxidizer, and mixing it with a fuel like kerosene will burn really well, possibly even exploding. It's probably not necessary to convert the ammonium nitrate to sodium nitrate if all you want is a fireball. A mixture like this is sometimes called "ANFO" (Ammonium Nitrate, Fuel Oil). It's pretty stable, but will detonate if you use a primary blasting cap. Be safe!

I'll add them in future videos. I rushed the production of this video, not super proud of it, but I'll put in more effort to make them easier to follow in the future.

Maybe someday. I’ve currently got my eyes on tnt, but I may also make a historical stick of dynamite with NG and mercury fulminate.

​@@mana3109 Soaking up NG with diatomaceous earth would be a great video

@@mana3109 historical stick with ng is a great idea fr

@@mana3109 while your pour it put a stirring stick on the lip and the liquid will cling on the stick and flow down.

yes

yes also

I got most of the distillation setup from Vevor as a kit. Got the hotplate off ebay. My condenser cracked in a previous distillation so I replaced it with one off of aliexpress. Most other stuff is from Amazon.

You can find a video on how to make one just like it on NurdRage's channel. It's just a 72w water pump (~20$ cad) hooked directly to a stainless steel aspirator vacuum pump (~20$ cad). I got both parts off ali express.

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One of my maps of all time

happens every other game lol

Mine to lmfao I thought it was one of my mods tbh