On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:29:51 GMT, Rich Grise
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:27:43 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:13:35 -0400, Meat Plow

Isn't pure Iodine highly unstable?

No. Ammonium tri-Iodide and Nitrogen Tri-Iodide are the traditional
unstable contact explosive. Great fun in high skool and college
blowing things up. It was also probably the origin of the term
"purple haze". It's fairly easy to make and equally easy to have a
spectacular accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlAf936E90

What ever happened to fulminate of mercury?

Thanks,
Rich

The ingredients became a bit tougher to come by and more expensive,
same for lead picrate.

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