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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 10 Dec 2024 00:01:06 GMT
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 21:49:25 +0100, D wrote:

> I think making gun powder is very simple. There's loads of youtube
> videos,
> and I imagine that a couple of pipe bombs would be far easier and more
> explosive than car battery bombs.

When I was a kid I could walk down the street to the local pharmacy and 
buy potassium nitrate and flowers of sulfur. The pharmacist probably knew 
what I was up to but kids were expected to blow things up back then. I 
could also get iodine crystals for my nitrogen triiodide experiments. It's 
too unstable to be very useful but it does make a nifty purple cloud when 
it blows.

I only remember one kid getting injured and that was from the low rent 
activity of stuffing match heads into a CO2 capsule. Darwinian selection 
at work.