gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Ka-boom)
[personal profile] gridlore
Not so fast. Instant explosives from household chemicals are found only in old tapes of MacGuvyer, as this excellent blog points out in some detail.

Thanks to the [livejournal.com profile] mdlbear for the link.

Actually, it's quite easy,

Date: 12 Aug 2006 05:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capplor.livejournal.com
speaking professionally, to mix commonly available ingredients into a bomb. It's called ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate, i.e. common fertilizer, and Fuel Oil). The catch is that it will NOT be something that's particularly impressive in quantities that one person could carry without being obvious.

Re: Actually, it's quite easy,

Date: 12 Aug 2006 05:53 (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
Wouldn't take all that much.

Date: 12 Aug 2006 05:53 (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
As [livejournal.com profile] capplor points out, there are some explosives you can make from common ingredients -- it's just that the one that the media has latched onto isn't one of them.

If there really is peroxide in the mix, I'd guess that the solid ingredient is a powdered fuel of some sort. Otherwise, I would have expected something like ammonium nitrate and fuel oil.
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
exactly. Though according to Wikipedia (not always a reliable source) the one used in Oklahoma City was ammonium nitrate and nitrobenzene, which roughly doubles the yield.

Date: 12 Aug 2006 07:10 (UTC)
kengr: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kengr
Ethyl nitrate is another possibility. And it's apt to be just as tricky to make in practice.

BTW, my thought from the start about the ban was that for anything in a *beverage* container, making the person take a swig is all the testing you really need.

Date: 12 Aug 2006 15:09 (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
It was apparently going to be transported in soft drink bottles with false bottoms.

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