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Posted by Steve on March 23, 2008, 4:15 pm
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>> Steve wrote:
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>>> Not sure how to acquire smal quantities of Nitric acid locally either.
>>> Our local chemist is nervous about selling me 500ml bottles of IsoPropyl
>>> Alcohol, so asking for Nitric will probably give him a heart attack.
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>> Should be easy enough then, isopropyl alcohol can be used to make Sarin
>> (the nerve gas), but the worst you can make with nitric acid is
>> nitroglycerine.
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>> Of course a "Chemist" may not know that ...
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>> If you are anywhere near Trowbridge Wilts I can let you have some nitric
>> acid .. but I can't post it.
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> The yanks reckon that a solution of alum is the dog's danglies for
> dissolving steel out of aluminium. Quite what alum is or where you'd get
> it from I have no idea.
> --
> Dave Baker
> Puma Race Engines
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aluminum potassium sulphate, I can't remember what it was commonly used
for.
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> Not sure how to acquire smal quantities of Nitric acid locally either.
> Our local chemist is nervous about selling me 500ml bottles of IsoPropyl
> Alcohol, so asking for Nitric will probably give him a heart attack.