Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:34:06 -0700
Bob,
Ammonia will do it fer sure.
Ah,, remember the big firecracker Ensign Fulmer set off in Mr. Roberts.
Fulminate of mercury!
--Dick
At 08:27 PM 3/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Making silver nitrate by disolving silver metal in nitric acid and then
>precipitating out the crystals with a something else rang a memory bell.
>As I recall, if you add ethyl alcohol you get fulminate of silver crystals.
>When dry, these crystals can detonate if you look at them sideways. n'est pas?
>
>Bob Schramm
>
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