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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

By-products of soap can be used to make nitroglycerine, which when stabilised with an inert binder, is approximately dynamite (commercial dynamite is far more refined tgan this crude early recipe produces)

It always made me laugh when he's just like "you get glycerine from this process. All you need to do is just add some nitric acid." As if youre baking brownies.

Glycerine can be purchased in bulk very easily. Nitric acid is exceptionally difficult to buy, very hard and dangerous to synthesise (outside of a well provisioned chem lab) even if you have the precursors (concentrated sulfuric acid and potassium nitrate) and to then produce nitroglycerine requires a lot more care than just mixing them together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Even in a well provisioned lab you're gonna have a hard time coming across large amounts of nitrogen rich compounds, exactly because they're crucial to making explosives.