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Why the explosives get formed? [closed]
In many reactions mechanisms, we study things like 'it forms explosive mixture and should be discarded off immediately'.
Now my question is 'If those compounds are that much unstable that it will ...
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Why is prismane explosive but cubane is not?
So I was reading about polyhedral hydrocarbons, because I dig the topic, and I read (admittedly on wikipedia entries... But they cited papers, I swear!) that prismane is explosive due to the massive ...
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Why do my slow burning fuses light off? [closed]
So recently II have been making a few times some slow burning fuses with: 34 g potassium nitrate, 26 g sugar, 60 g of water and some wool yarn. However when I light it up it burn a few seconds and ...
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Does mercury(II) cyanate exist?
Recently I have answered a question "Comparing explosive properties of mercury(II) cyanate and mercury(II) fulminate" where stability of cyanate vs fulminate was discussed. While I was ...
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Comparing explosive properties of mercury(II) cyanate and mercury(II) fulminate
I found this question online on Jiskha Homework Help:
Of the compounds mercury(II) cyanate, $\ce{Hg(OCN)2},$ and mercury(II) fulminate, $\ce{Hg(CNO)2},$ one is highly explosive, the other is not. ...
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316 stainless steel and high concentration, high temperature Hydrogen Peroxide
I'm looking at doing some experiments with small scale rocketry and I need to find the right materials for this project, where I will be burning through lots of HTC (peroxide above 90% concentration). ...
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Why is gunpowder urinated on in Blood Meridian?
An interesting section of Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy has the gang of "Indian fighters" surrounded and out of powder, so one of them manages to make it from scratch, making charcoal from ...
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What causes KNO3 to decompose into KNO2 and Oxygen in gunpowder?
I've been studying fireworks and from what I understand:
$\ce{KNO3}$ decomposes to form $\ce{KNO2}$ and $\ce{O2}$ gas, and this free oxygen reacts with carbon to react with carbon and sulfur to form ...
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Does sodium cyanide react with water, and can it cause an explosion?
According to some conspiracy theory, the explosion that happened last year in Tianjin (China) wasn't caused by sodium cyanide. Can sodium cyanide react with water, and can it cause an explosion if you ...
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Contact explosion of nitrogen triiodide
Nitrogen triiodide, on slightest physical contact, explodes to evolve dense purple fumes of iodine. Why does this phenomenon occur?
video link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlAf936E90
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Methylation of perchlorate
I am exploring (non-experimentally!) the methylation of a perchlorate precursor, either the acid or pre-existing salts, to produce the alkali methyl perchlorate. The methylating agent would be methane ...
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Is it possible to make metal fulminates?
Is it possible to make fulminates such as: magnesium fulminate, copper fulminate, etc.
by the metal + $\ce{HNO3}$ + $\ce{EtOH}$ reaction?
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Why can sulfur act like a catalyst?
In the reaction of combustion of gunpowder,
Sulfur is used to speed up the reaction and acts like a catalyst in that it increases the rate of reaction. However, unlike a catalyst, it is used up in ...
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