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.

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.

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