Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, Dylan Smith wrote:

> El 29/12/11 22:33, Leon Heller escribi?:
>> When I was about 12 I made some nitrogen tri-iodide, another very
>> unstable and powerful explosive, and left it to dry on a piece of filter
>> paper.
>
> We did that at school, putting it around things like door frames so when
> someone closed a door there would be a very loud bang. It all sort of
> backfired when the head of Chemistry happened to be the one to close the
> door one time, it wasn't exactly hard for him to figure out what it was,
> and he had a pretty good idea who was responsible...
>
> Today in our increasingly paranoid and scared society you could get put
> in prison due to anti-terror legislation for making the stuff, I think :-(

I remember a story in which someone dipped the ends of a pair of pencils 
in the stuff.  The pencils were owned by a student who was well-known for 
playing "Wipeout" with them.

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David Griffith
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