Tannerite

basic_drill said:
Since it's reclassified, I guess I can explain what it is. It's a mixture of Ammonium Nitrate and Aluminum powder. I don't believe "mixing" these constitute "manufacturing explosives", since AN is already a high-order explosive.

Powdered aluminum is available from paint stores as a paint additive for metallic paints.

It's very safe stuff, you can shoot it with a 300 AAC from 300 yards and it won't detonate -- not enough energy.
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And what exactly would have stopped you from explaining to us simpletons what it is, even if it had not been "reclassified"?.....it wasn't exactly "classified" information to begin with. LOL
 
basic_drill said:
Since it's reclassified, I guess I can explain what it is. It's a mixture of Ammonium Nitrate and Aluminum powder. I don't believe "mixing" these constitute "manufacturing explosives", since AN is already a high-order explosive.

Powdered aluminum is available from paint stores as a paint additive for metallic paints.

It's very safe stuff, you can shoot it with a 300 AAC from 300 yards and it won't detonate -- not enough energy.
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I dont pretend to be a lawyer, so take it FWIW, but I do NOT believe it is allowed to brew your own.
Not before, not now.
 
what, do people shot at it and its explodes? kind of like a can of gas and a open flame next to it, just no flame for the tennerite?
 
Rasp76 said:
ammonium nitrate is saltpeter and is a low order oxidizer. I thought Id chime in, available at any drug store
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stang said:
When I took chemistry potassium nitrate was saltpeter. My how things have changed! LOL.
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someone just got
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onetwentyish said:
All it is is fertilizer. That said, it is illegal to manufacture your own Tannerite and if you are cought purchasing for any means other than to farm, you will likely end up on some sort of watch/no fly list.
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OMG No. I used a bag of it in my septic drain field. It's the turd time I used it. What will they do to me?
 
stang said:
OMG No. I used a bag of it in my septic drain field. It's the turd time I used it. What will they do to me?
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pun intended?

I had the understanding that it was ammonium nitrate, charcoal and reactive aluminum powder. The later only used in explosives and hard to come by. Also I've seen ammonium nitrate in large quantities easily accessible and being used as a salt alternative for snow melting.
 
Nope. Saltpetre is Potassium Nitrate. Ammonium Nitrate is a strong oxidizer and NOT an explosive on its own. To clarify - Tannerite was not an importable explosive in Canada until April 2013 - so it has been reclassified by NRCAN
 
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