One very neat thing to do with RDX is to mix with a small amount of aluminum powder and graphite and bind it with a sparing amount silicone or another plastic such as PVC. This makes it moldable and very insensitive. However, using a small capacitor it can be easily detonated without needing a blasting cap. About 1kV at 5uF or so delivered by a high speed switch with about 1mm electrode spacing at the surface of the charge. Have a blast ❤
are you sure that RDX can be detonated by electric shock instead of lead azide, I had done some research in the past and all of the answers said it's semi impossible, so idk.
@@comrademonke5934yup the plasma and shockwave will detonate it reliably. What happenes is the aluminum and graphite conduct and form an arc. The pressure wave fron the arc plus the extreme heat detonate the RDX bulk material. The capacitor must be low ESR, wiring must be heavy and the switch must be fast.❤
you should have been a chemistry teacher, you're very amazing, I have chemists in my family, and they would be very proud that there are people out there like yourself still into this amazing combustible chemistry. thank you
I had all this info separately but he is my hero putting it all together like this in a convenient easy to understand package! Long live the all knowing Dugan!
Wow, accidentally stumbled across your semi new channel Dugan. Love the presentation of the videos, the explanation of equipment or reasons why to do it a certain way over another, it just really helps to someone with no chem background. Hope you're doing great man!
The risk of accumulation is way to important in your protocol due to the low addition temperature. Also there is no thermal sink that can help the synthesis get under control trough evaporation. You can adapt the procedure by having hexamine disolved in acetic acid and to add it to aceticanhydride, amonium nitrate, nitric acid and more acetic acid dropwise. Work at higher temperature in a three neck flask with a mechanical agitator, a condensor and a temperature probe. This way if you ever risk runing into a runaway, the acetic acid will boiloff , condense and keep the reaction at a safe temperature. In the industry some process are adding all reagent using flow metered pump and are performing the reaction in a jacketed pipe reactor at high flow rate.
its crazy to think about the factories the CRANKED out huge amounts of RDX during WWII. they had accidents too, and there are some good documentaries about the poor souls who got obliterated in factory accidents making warheads for the war effort. There is a decent pucker factor just making a small amount for research (or whatever reason) in the gram range. imagine making 20 pounds of RDX in a big vat, and then knowing you are going to cram it into a steel case later to make a gravity bomb to be dropped on Germany. 20 is just a guess, i imagine they made much larger batches at a time. its also interesting that such an old energetic is still being used right now. a lot of the munitions in Ukraine probably have RDX
like you said. the fact that all of this shit is going onn in the world is the reason learning energetics. knowledge is a weapon everybody is allowed to have
Hi Dugan, great video! One question I have is about quenching and washing with sodium carbonate / bicarbonate. In many reactions, one will not substitute for the other- the pH of bicarb solution is typically around 8.5, whereas carbonate solution is more like 12. Have you achieved the same results using either material? Thanks for posting!
Yes that's true they are different. pKa of carb is around 10 and bicarb is about 6. The quenching should be done with water, which also acts to dilute acidity. The bicarb or carb wash is next. Either are beyond what is necessary at 5%. The actual K method uses 5% sodium carbonate wash only. Either or can be used.
The primer mixtures is doable but we were talking about NC on discord a couple weeks ago and it’s wildly difficult to get good quality and good yields in a home environment.
it was an extremely interesting presentation. I would even say as extreme as a "runaway situation" can be, from an intellectual point of view of course hahaha! Your explanations were clear, precise and you raised points concerning reactivity linked to temperature which particularly appealed to me. You have a way of presenting the subject in such manner that was very stimulating ; you captivated my attention from start to finish. Thank you very much for this good work, sincerely.
Do you bother with neutralizing the acid and recovering it as a nitrate salt to make more acid later? Also, are you adding an acid scavenger like urea to your recryst water?
Im not going to show anything about recovery because it's too big of a topic. The spent acid from nitration of RDX can sometimes be an explosive hazard depending on how it's processed towards a recovery. Nitric acid and ammonium nitrate are the common targeted recovery products. On a small scale I don't recover anything. I dont use an acid scavenger for RDX, only a bicarb wash and 3x recrys. For ETN I use urea as scavenger and recrys 3 or even more times. ETN in my experience purifies with more difficulty than PETN. Samples of PETN and ETN I have made using mirrored process and the PETN stored indefinitely, while the ETN had mild decomposition. ETN is worth the additional efforts to purify to get a stable product.
H2SO4 destroys RDX so I’d be concerned that MgSO4 might do that too and it’s really not a very strong drying agent. P2O5 is often used in RDX synthesis for exactly the same reason though.
No, I cannot. There are probably only one or two people living on earth that could answer a question like that in good faith off the top of their head. Shape charges can be used with a range of angles and liners. Steel drilling is probably the most sensitive for an optimum angle. If drilling or boring in earth you can get really sloppy with angles. Ive used plastic funnels in the past and cut the stems off for shaped charges. Blasting tanks, equipment etc. Many funnels, many different angles. You can go up to ~90 I think. I havent measured angles on penetrator munition, but it's usually more acute. If it gets too tight you will get divergence in the jet. Standoff distance for jet formation is more critical than liner material or velocity for shape charge effect. The gains from liner materials are practically indistinguishable in the field IMO. The normal velocity is ~8 km/s which is the baseline spec velocity of comp B. Usually from PETN or RDX. But you can go lower velocity. I don't know how low you can go though... I hope that helps, That's all Ive got
hi man where can i find the texts you used to explain? keep doing this videos, not interested in ever trying to do this you know, because of danger risks and lack of equipment but i would like to find a good educating reading
😂 your choice of gentle classical music during nitration is exquisite.....does it calm the reaction down ?. Or have no influence on thermodynamics.?.. are you obsessed with triple bonded nitrogen you clever man. ❤
Based on solubility, acetone accounts for the majority of chem costs for RDX, even for one recryst. cycle. Dissolve/crash seems prohibitive except as expedient for small experiments/demos. I wonder if repeatedly cycling solvent temp while alternately filtering crystals and (nearly) re-saturating solution using perhaps 100ml:60g acetone-RDX ratio (after 10-ish cycles) would not accomplish the lion’s share of the purification done in a 100ml:15g crash. Just a thought.
I already wrote a rebuttal to this, but I guess youtube deleted it. This is the future of "free speech" I suppose. --Anyways. To repeat, The US government alone has negligently killed more civilians with their explosives accidentally, than all terrorist or civilian explosive incidents in US combined. It's like saying: "arent you worried if you show people how to safely use guns, that someone will commit murder or shoot themselves?"
That's right. If you are doing 65% you are going to take a major yield hit. I would recommend in the case of 65% NA to do the following: Add hexamine below 15C and then monitor half-hour stabilization period, then allow nitration to continue on stirring for many hours. I haven't gone that low in concentration so this is all speculative. You will at a minimum want to go 120 minutes but you should get additional yield if you just stir the reaction mixture for 4-8 hrs. Maybe overnight. Then follow with a heating regiment. Do in an area that can withstand a runaway or fire because if you stir overnight you wont be able to monitor nitration (which is a risk). If you go unmonitored prepare the area for fire or detonation just in case of worst case scenario.
HDN is 2x lower heat of nitration, but direct hexamine is a magnitude faster to yield. But the k method uses hexamine. HDN can be substituted if weight is adjusted. But in RDX generally, HDN isn't necessary. I have found during keto rdx synthesis, HDN is almost mandatory because of the wild heat of reaction. I've had actual live runaways out of nowhere during K6 using hexamine. while RDX is fairly safe. @darianballard2074
@@duganashley1337 Fun stuff. I love to make PETN over just about any other compound like this. Have you ever tried doing melt cast with ETN? I've done ETN melt with RDX and also done it with PETN. Very powerful mix and no need for pressing. Good video by the way. 😁
Thank you. Ive watched all of your videos in the past and enjoy them as well. I appreciate PETN too. I prefer it over RDX. I absolutely love ETN. erythritol is $3-$4/lb. I haven't covered it yet because it is a dangerous topic if I don't really cover it well. So many people blow off their body parts and kill themselves with ETN. @@darianballard2074
The only thing i have to criticize is that you shouldnt touch or inhale RDX (Powder/Dust), because it is carcinogenic. Should be added to your safety measures. Otherwise very good content
I will probably get into that after I get out a good catalogue of videos. Need to get them out so ppl can record them because YT will prob terminate channel at some point. Right now Im planning on keto rdx, ANQN, ETN, detonators, Special Charges, tertiary explosives , Ammonium nitrate based explosives, and amino acid salts. Oh and lead azide. Maybe I should just start a second channel for that kind of non explo stuff?
the well poisoners followed into this channel within a couple weeks, no doubt scheming to shut down the channel... They screeched at the last video I made. I pulled it down so that it wouldnt jeopardize the energetic vids.
@@duganashley1337 selfishly, I would appreciate a second channel for “live stream” type content like you used to do. I know I’m not alone in that I think it matters more what you want to upload, though. I’m not here to look a gift horse in the mouth
Well, things will likely go pretty bad at election time, so I want to get these videos out so ppl around USA/world can rip them, get video guide to explosives if they need it. I imagine if things get bad, there may be more censorship. Once they are out there, I will loosen up. @@masonboard
PETN is more sensitive and less chemically stable than RDX. RDX has slight performance edge over PETN in larger masses but RDX requires more demanding resources and production processes. Hope that helps.
Next HMX, please. If you need to know where to get acetic anhydride legally from a legit supplier I can point you in the right direction. It's not cheap because it comes in aspirin synthesis kits for science teachers to use in classes but it's not crazy expensive either. If you want some tips I'm here. Edit: I saw you used nitrile gloves when using fuming nitric acid, be careful, going gloveless is better than using nitrile or latex with fuming HNO3 because it will make them catch fire immediately. If you want gloves use butyl rubber.
I always avoid it because my focus is on over the counter materials that people will use, but I may someday try ac2O just for experience, Ive never used it. Thanks.
@@duganashley1337 there is this cool video out there where a guy makes a ketene lamp that was purged with inert gas. Maybe too complicated for most people, but a very nice apparatus that runs the least risk of going splody. th-cam.com/video/_1mMW2qEF84/w-d-xo.html
I use PID controller hotplates that are set to the actual target temps so there are no spots that are above that. The water will homogenously diffuse heat as far as I'm aware. I haven't put probes under a beaker to measure actual heat in a bath, but I do use a IR thermometer to check hot water surface readings and it is very low temp deviations throughout bath. Maybe 2-3 degrees deviations if the heating is extreme.
Never thought of that I always let it sit on the bottom and never had an issue even in larger batches but I'm glad you pointed that out so I can pay more attention to the temps and see if it's warmer on the bottom or if the stirring is sufficient, which I think it has been. I've been a fan of you for a while Darien lol good to see us energetics guys all hang out in the same spots.
This guy is definitely grabbing people. I dont mean in the sociopath way. I mean this guy is making more than a few milligrams of hme and isnt being harassed by fedibois. The only reasons for this are licensing (still need to be a fediboi) or is a fediboi.
You are a genius. "HME" is a term that DHS uses. It's not a common term used in public dialogue. You are a not-very-smart police officer being taught this word by your affiliation with police or FEDs or a FED yourself, most likely. Ive been making videos since 2012. Many channels. Ive worked with many people in arms and defense industry who know me personally, from in person contact. Just stop commenting. What is wrong with you people? You watch too many movies and have to turn everything into a soap opera. I have no affiliation with any kind of law enforcement nor is educating people some kind of honey pot. Youre just dumb. Slandering scum bag.
Youre so idiotic, you dont even know what the regulations are. milligrams? Seriously? You shouldnt be making any comments on energetic videos. Im going to pin your message so you have to eat your own words. Readers can have a good laugh at your existential expense.
Directly from the ATF website: "Under federal explosives law, it is illegal to manufacture, store, distribute, receive or transport explosive materials without a federal explosives license or permit (FEL/FEP)." I understand that its still legal to manufacture small amounts for exploring the science behind it. On the ATF website it gives the upper limits to the production. I'd post a link but YT will delete anything that's not a YT link.
I do not "manufacture" "Store", "distribute" or "receive" or "transport" explosives. You dont even understand what those mean and for all you know, I could live outside of the USA or operate under an FEL /type 10 or for a research and development company. You would have no idea. Fudd. @@WarkWarbly
Had no idea Christian Bale moon lights as a chemist! Love it
One very neat thing to do with RDX is to mix with a small amount of aluminum powder and graphite and bind it with a sparing amount silicone or another plastic such as PVC. This makes it moldable and very insensitive. However, using a small capacitor it can be easily detonated without needing a blasting cap. About 1kV at 5uF or so delivered by a high speed switch with about 1mm electrode spacing at the surface of the charge. Have a blast ❤
Interesting, thanks! Will have to do a video on some various PBXs sometime.
this channel is for people over 18 years old@@pazsion
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are you sure that RDX can be detonated by electric shock instead of lead azide, I had done some research in the past and all of the answers said it's semi impossible, so idk.
@@comrademonke5934yup the plasma and shockwave will detonate it reliably. What happenes is the aluminum and graphite conduct and form an arc. The pressure wave fron the arc plus the extreme heat detonate the RDX bulk material. The capacitor must be low ESR, wiring must be heavy and the switch must be fast.❤
Love the vibe, channel's a hidden gem for sure
Yes, vibe is on point.
This is the perfect channel for chemists with boring day jobs.
you should have been a chemistry teacher, you're very amazing, I have chemists in my family, and they would be very proud that there are people out there like yourself still into this amazing combustible chemistry. thank you
"It's just like Burger King, you just have it your way." Haha, good stuff.
dank set of videos! you've done a better job teaching chem than my school teachers. thanks for the time you've spent on your vid.
Been watching my notifications since the first part! Great to see you again, the energetics videos are awesome.
I've missed you Dugan! Thanks for coming back
He uploaded less than a week ago calm down. Hes right tho good too see you uploading
@@thegold3538 this is the first video I've seen since his request for help, my bad dawg.
The literary brilliance of the intro is Shakespearean. It's poetry.
I thought it was beavis and butthead.
I had all this info separately but he is my hero putting it all together like this in a convenient easy to understand package!
Long live the all knowing Dugan!
Wow, accidentally stumbled across your semi new channel Dugan. Love the presentation of the videos, the explanation of equipment or reasons why to do it a certain way over another, it just really helps to someone with no chem background. Hope you're doing great man!
Oh no Dugan has enough subs to go live. …
Been anxiously awaiting this one! Best cooking channel on TH-cam.
Dugans out here doing gods work. I appreciate you, man.
I love you Dugan, keep doing what you do man!
The risk of accumulation is way to important in your protocol due to the low addition temperature. Also there is no thermal sink that can help the synthesis get under control trough evaporation. You can adapt the procedure by having hexamine disolved in acetic acid and to add it to aceticanhydride, amonium nitrate, nitric acid and more acetic acid dropwise. Work at higher temperature in a three neck flask with a mechanical agitator, a condensor and a temperature probe. This way if you ever risk runing into a runaway, the acetic acid will boiloff , condense and keep the reaction at a safe temperature. In the industry some process are adding all reagent using flow metered pump and are performing the reaction in a jacketed pipe reactor at high flow rate.
its crazy to think about the factories the CRANKED out huge amounts of RDX during WWII. they had accidents too, and there are some good documentaries about the poor souls who got obliterated in factory accidents making warheads for the war effort. There is a decent pucker factor just making a small amount for research (or whatever reason) in the gram range. imagine making 20 pounds of RDX in a big vat, and then knowing you are going to cram it into a steel case later to make a gravity bomb to be dropped on Germany. 20 is just a guess, i imagine they made much larger batches at a time. its also interesting that such an old energetic is still being used right now. a lot of the munitions in Ukraine probably have RDX
There are huge environmental contamination problems around those factories that are still causing problems today unfortunately.
Glad to have you back dugan!!! We missed you so much 😭
I'm watching with great interest. You look like a young Bradley Cooper)
Nice finaly the 2nd part! I hope this channel won't disappear like some other similar channels ...
Awesome and very approachable video. Thank you sir.
Bro that is so fascinating. Great video
good job!
like you said. the fact that all of this shit is going onn in the world is the reason learning energetics. knowledge is a weapon everybody is allowed to have
Hi Dugan, great video! One question I have is about quenching and washing with sodium carbonate / bicarbonate. In many reactions, one will not substitute for the other- the pH of bicarb solution is typically around 8.5, whereas carbonate solution is more like 12. Have you achieved the same results using either material?
Thanks for posting!
Yes that's true they are different. pKa of carb is around 10 and bicarb is about 6. The quenching should be done with water, which also acts to dilute acidity. The bicarb or carb wash is next. Either are beyond what is necessary at 5%. The actual K method uses 5% sodium carbonate wash only. Either or can be used.
Thank you for part 2. Now i will go to work.
Good to see you're doing well\
How low can you get the reaction temperature? Like could you use a dry ice ethanol bath instead of an ice bath?
so good to have you back dug. love ya man
Do you take requests?
I'd like to see a video on eph 20 priming compound, and synthesis of smokeless powder if thats something you can do.
The primer mixtures is doable but we were talking about NC on discord a couple weeks ago and it’s wildly difficult to get good quality and good yields in a home environment.
Keep 'em coming.
it was an extremely interesting presentation. I would even say as extreme as a "runaway situation" can be, from an intellectual point of view
of course hahaha! Your explanations were clear, precise and you raised points concerning reactivity linked to temperature which particularly appealed to me. You have a way of presenting the subject in such manner that was very stimulating ; you captivated my attention from start to finish.
Thank you very much for this good work, sincerely.
Do you bother with neutralizing the acid and recovering it as a nitrate salt to make more acid later? Also, are you adding an acid scavenger like urea to your recryst water?
Im not going to show anything about recovery because it's too big of a topic. The spent acid from nitration of RDX can sometimes be an explosive hazard depending on how it's processed towards a recovery. Nitric acid and ammonium nitrate are the common targeted recovery products. On a small scale I don't recover anything. I dont use an acid scavenger for RDX, only a bicarb wash and 3x recrys. For ETN I use urea as scavenger and recrys 3 or even more times. ETN in my experience purifies with more difficulty than PETN. Samples of PETN and ETN I have made using mirrored process and the PETN stored indefinitely, while the ETN had mild decomposition. ETN is worth the additional efforts to purify to get a stable product.
@@duganashley1337thanks brother, always good to hear how others are doing things. I agree that acid recovery is a large and complex topic. Thanks!
I wonder if drying the solution ,while it nitrating, will increase the yeld, for example, adding MgSO4
H2SO4 destroys RDX so I’d be concerned that MgSO4 might do that too and it’s really not a very strong drying agent. P2O5 is often used in RDX synthesis for exactly the same reason though.
can you comment on the ideal angle of a copper liner in a conical shaped charge as a function of of the VOD of the propellant?
No, I cannot. There are probably only one or two people living on earth that could answer a question like that in good faith off the top of their head. Shape charges can be used with a range of angles and liners. Steel drilling is probably the most sensitive for an optimum angle. If drilling or boring in earth you can get really sloppy with angles. Ive used plastic funnels in the past and cut the stems off for shaped charges. Blasting tanks, equipment etc. Many funnels, many different angles. You can go up to ~90 I think. I havent measured angles on penetrator munition, but it's usually more acute. If it gets too tight you will get divergence in the jet. Standoff distance for jet formation is more critical than liner material or velocity for shape charge effect. The gains from liner materials are practically indistinguishable in the field IMO. The normal velocity is ~8 km/s which is the baseline spec velocity of comp B. Usually from PETN or RDX. But you can go lower velocity. I don't know how low you can go though... I hope that helps, That's all Ive got
hi man where can i find the texts you used to explain? keep doing this videos, not interested in ever trying to do this you know, because of danger risks and lack of equipment but i would like to find a good educating reading
A lot of it is on the sciencemadness forums.
😂 your choice of gentle classical music during nitration is exquisite.....does it calm the reaction down ?. Or have no influence on thermodynamics.?.. are you obsessed with triple bonded nitrogen you clever man. ❤
Daddy Dugan
That Intro could every much be out of a beavis and butthead episode. Anyways
LOve chemistry. Why wasnt this taught at school ? Very interesting for my ADHD brain
Amazing.
Can amonium nitrate be replaced by potassium nitrate?
You scare me with those nitrile gloves and wfna! I do the nitrile glove test as a party trick
You can spill quite a bit on them when wearing then wipe it off and the glove wont ignite.
Watching the part 1 thought about seeing your eyes illuminated...
How does a guy get started in amateur accelerants I find chemistry fascinating but don’t know where to start
Sciencemadness forums
The protocol is interesting, however, I can see quite a few security flaws. You should avoid using glass for the nitration and should use PTFE/Plastic
Based on solubility, acetone accounts for the majority of chem costs for RDX, even for one recryst. cycle. Dissolve/crash seems prohibitive except as expedient for small experiments/demos. I wonder if repeatedly cycling solvent temp while alternately filtering crystals and (nearly) re-saturating solution using perhaps 100ml:60g acetone-RDX ratio (after 10-ish cycles) would not accomplish the lion’s share of the purification done in a 100ml:15g crash. Just a thought.
You can recover it by distillation if you really want but watch the temperature.
Great video, totally fascinating to see the actual reaction.
Isn't anyone worried about idiots ending up hurting people with this info..?
I already wrote a rebuttal to this, but I guess youtube deleted it. This is the future of "free speech" I suppose. --Anyways. To repeat, The US government alone has negligently killed more civilians with their explosives accidentally, than all terrorist or civilian explosive incidents in US combined. It's like saying: "arent you worried if you show people how to safely use guns, that someone will commit murder or shoot themselves?"
Who should be afraid brother luke, point us to their whereabouts?
If you get red gas ...... goes the music become more dramatic ? Will the tarentella dance dispell evil gases ? 😂😂😂😂
It’s standard procedure to stop a runaway nitration with dramatic music.
you should do a video on ETN
Do a etn synthesis vidéo detailed plz with kno3 if you can
I dream of freedom 🥁🎸🎻
Can someone show me how to plasticize the crystallization of RDX
Are my calculations correct, 13.23g of 65% hno3
That's right. If you are doing 65% you are going to take a major yield hit. I would recommend in the case of 65% NA to do the following: Add hexamine below 15C and then monitor half-hour stabilization period, then allow nitration to continue on stirring for many hours. I haven't gone that low in concentration so this is all speculative. You will at a minimum want to go 120 minutes but you should get additional yield if you just stir the reaction mixture for 4-8 hrs. Maybe overnight. Then follow with a heating regiment. Do in an area that can withstand a runaway or fire because if you stir overnight you wont be able to monitor nitration (which is a risk). If you go unmonitored prepare the area for fire or detonation just in case of worst case scenario.
I start with HDN. I have a dozen PDF files on this subject.
HDN is 2x lower heat of nitration, but direct hexamine is a magnitude faster to yield. But the k method uses hexamine. HDN can be substituted if weight is adjusted. But in RDX generally, HDN isn't necessary. I have found during keto rdx synthesis, HDN is almost mandatory because of the wild heat of reaction. I've had actual live runaways out of nowhere during K6 using hexamine. while RDX is fairly safe. @darianballard2074
@@duganashley1337 Fun stuff. I love to make PETN over just about any other compound like this. Have you ever tried doing melt cast with ETN? I've done ETN melt with RDX and also done it with PETN. Very powerful mix and no need for pressing. Good video by the way. 😁
Thank you. Ive watched all of your videos in the past and enjoy them as well. I appreciate PETN too. I prefer it over RDX. I absolutely love ETN. erythritol is $3-$4/lb. I haven't covered it yet because it is a dangerous topic if I don't really cover it well. So many people blow off their body parts and kill themselves with ETN. @@darianballard2074
You would be an awesome friend and neighbor.
The only thing i have to criticize is that you shouldnt touch or inhale RDX (Powder/Dust), because it is carcinogenic. Should be added to your safety measures. Otherwise very good content
Now this one I did master before I turned 18. TNT not so much.
I love your hat. I have the same one
lol. yeah. I just sort of wear stuff until it falls apart. I think that hat is 16 years old
Lookin healthy buddy
Thanks! I lift and run? Maybe that holds me up. Last brain lesions took about 2 years recovery but Im pretty strong again now.
@@duganashley1337 It's insane you look like a new person. Everyone thought you were totally fucked before.
I got better for now@@lililililililili8667
Making this method,
How much of HMX obtain in % among RDX?
From what I've gathered so far, it seems PETN is far easier to make. Can you do a video on it?
RDX or a Trash Can full of anthrax?
Based on
how to plasticize the RDX?
Dugan, if you feel up to it, can we PLEASE get a new episode of Dug News
I’m glad to see you alive, if this is you and not a skinwalker
I will probably get into that after I get out a good catalogue of videos. Need to get them out so ppl can record them because YT will prob terminate channel at some point. Right now Im planning on keto rdx, ANQN, ETN, detonators, Special Charges, tertiary explosives , Ammonium nitrate based explosives, and amino acid salts. Oh and lead azide. Maybe I should just start a second channel for that kind of non explo stuff?
the well poisoners followed into this channel within a couple weeks, no doubt scheming to shut down the channel... They screeched at the last video I made. I pulled it down so that it wouldnt jeopardize the energetic vids.
@@duganashley1337 selfishly, I would appreciate a second channel for “live stream” type content like you used to do. I know I’m not alone in that
I think it matters more what you want to upload, though. I’m not here to look a gift horse in the mouth
Well, things will likely go pretty bad at election time, so I want to get these videos out so ppl around USA/world can rip them, get video guide to explosives if they need it. I imagine if things get bad, there may be more censorship. Once they are out there, I will loosen up. @@masonboard
@@duganashley1337 sounds good to me. Godspeed
I was traumatized by undergrad ochem but I love hearing people talk about chemistry passionately, good ahit Dugan
Still eating garlic?
CANT GET A HOT GF? MAKE RDX!
Making RDX > sanity
what book/write up is that you keep showing?
urbanski v3
is RDX or PETN more sensitive?
PETN is more sensitive and less chemically stable than RDX. RDX has slight performance edge over PETN in larger masses but RDX requires more demanding resources and production processes. Hope that helps.
Next HMX, please. If you need to know where to get acetic anhydride legally from a legit supplier I can point you in the right direction. It's not cheap because it comes in aspirin synthesis kits for science teachers to use in classes but it's not crazy expensive either. If you want some tips I'm here.
Edit: I saw you used nitrile gloves when using fuming nitric acid, be careful, going gloveless is better than using nitrile or latex with fuming HNO3 because it will make them catch fire immediately. If you want gloves use butyl rubber.
I always avoid it because my focus is on over the counter materials that people will use, but I may someday try ac2O just for experience, Ive never used it. Thanks.
@@duganashley1337 If you ever decide to I'll send you a couple of bottles of Ac2O
@@duganashley1337 there is this cool video out there where a guy makes a ketene lamp that was purged with inert gas. Maybe too complicated for most people, but a very nice apparatus that runs the least risk of going splody. th-cam.com/video/_1mMW2qEF84/w-d-xo.html
Nhn and etn next
Time stamp 12:39 I see you're letting the flask sit on the bottom of the water bath, I never do that to avoid hot spots and I only go up to 55c
I use PID controller hotplates that are set to the actual target temps so there are no spots that are above that. The water will homogenously diffuse heat as far as I'm aware. I haven't put probes under a beaker to measure actual heat in a bath, but I do use a IR thermometer to check hot water surface readings and it is very low temp deviations throughout bath. Maybe 2-3 degrees deviations if the heating is extreme.
Never thought of that I always let it sit on the bottom and never had an issue even in larger batches but I'm glad you pointed that out so I can pay more attention to the temps and see if it's warmer on the bottom or if the stirring is sufficient, which I think it has been. I've been a fan of you for a while Darien lol good to see us energetics guys all hang out in the same spots.
@@duganashley1337 Very cool. I use cheap hotplates so I have to be a little more careful.
@@bobbyc2768 Thanks, I'll have more videos coming soon. I think Dugan really hit this video out of the park though. 😀
dont make me blush darian @@darianballard2074
DUGAN
hi, hows it goin
@@duganashley1337 good bro. Been trying to talk my wife into getting the carnikon tramp stamp for years. Guess I have to take one for team
Seriously? Hexamine, Ammonium Nitrate and nitric acid is all? Weird.
This guy is definitely grabbing people. I dont mean in the sociopath way.
I mean this guy is making more than a few milligrams of hme and isnt being harassed by fedibois.
The only reasons for this are licensing (still need to be a fediboi) or is a fediboi.
You are a genius. "HME" is a term that DHS uses. It's not a common term used in public dialogue. You are a not-very-smart police officer being taught this word by your affiliation with police or FEDs or a FED yourself, most likely. Ive been making videos since 2012. Many channels. Ive worked with many people in arms and defense industry who know me personally, from in person contact. Just stop commenting. What is wrong with you people? You watch too many movies and have to turn everything into a soap opera. I have no affiliation with any kind of law enforcement nor is educating people some kind of honey pot. Youre just dumb. Slandering scum bag.
Youre so idiotic, you dont even know what the regulations are. milligrams? Seriously? You shouldnt be making any comments on energetic videos. Im going to pin your message so you have to eat your own words. Readers can have a good laugh at your existential expense.
Directly from the ATF website:
"Under federal explosives law, it is illegal to manufacture, store, distribute, receive or transport explosive materials without a federal explosives license or permit (FEL/FEP)."
I understand that its still legal to manufacture small amounts for exploring the science behind it. On the ATF website it gives the upper limits to the production.
I'd post a link but YT will delete anything that's not a YT link.
I do not "manufacture" "Store", "distribute" or "receive" or "transport" explosives. You dont even understand what those mean and for all you know, I could live outside of the USA or operate under an FEL /type 10 or for a research and development company. You would have no idea. Fudd. @@WarkWarbly
Pin of shame. If you don't want to enjoy presentations on explosives then fuck off. It doesn't hurt you to watch a video on energetics chemistry.
Runaways suck
Why does your ammonium nitrate look so fluffy dude? Hey, I was in the Army round the same time as you - what was your MOS?
ground AN. 12B