BP Explosives

Well, BP'rs, we have been challenged if the old codgers have any bang left.

With permission of the esteemed author I forward the following.
All scientific results are expected to be posted on BP.

I have read your guys' email about m-80's
and such... all quite wonderful, but apparently your
recipes have gotten a little dusty...

        Oliver's purple flame "smoke bomb"
        add two parts sugar to one part
        potassium nitrate in an old soup can.
        place several model rocket
        igniters in the mixture and ignite.
        It will shoot out a large purple
        flame and an extremely thick smoke;
        enough to cover a city block.
              by the way...

         It will melt the can.

Now for the potassium pemaganate.
(that stuff also cures trench foot.)

         Oliver's contact explosive
         get a small glass jar.
         put a little bit of gasoline
         inside and shake it, to effectively
         cover the walls of the jar.
         Let the gasoline evaporate
         inside the jar by setting
         it in the sun for a while.
         open the jar just enough
         to put your drop of potassium
         permaganate in (from an
         eye dropper) and then
         quickly close it.  If you
         chance to throw this jar
         against a wall hard enough
         to break the jar, a fireball
         proportionate to the size of
         the jar will seemingly magically
         appear.

   Have fun and don't lose any fingers!

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