tylerni7
June 19th, 2006, 11:03 PM
I am suprised that no one has mentioned oxyliquits on this forum (at least I can't find any when I search). They are high explosives that are incredibly easy to create. As you can see I am a n00b, so I have not tried this yet, although I have made some liquid oxygen. I was hoping some of you more experienced pyros might be able to share your experiences, or those of you who could do this safely could tell me how it is (I realize that I shouldn't post a tutorial without having tried it first, but it seems logical that more experienced users should share their experiences or try it before I kill myself with it...) At the least, you might be able to use this tutorial to help make liquid oxygen...
The first step is to make sure you have the materials. While it is easy to create, you will need some things that you might not all have.
1. Fuel (such as charcol, soot, aluminum powder, etc)
2. Liquid oxygen (this is hard to come by so instead you can use a strong glass bottle, liquid nitrogen(a few liters), a rubber stopper, oxygen(a tank would speed things up), and rubber tubing)
3. Appropriate safety gear
Steps (assuming you don't have liquid oxygen if so skip to step 4)
1. If you have an oxygen tank, attach it to the rubber tube, and have it lead into one end of the rubber stopper, another rubber tube should come out of the stopper, it is not necessary, but is helpful. Put the rubber stopper on a strong glass bottle, other materials with better heat conduction will work better.
2. Carefully place the bottle in a bath of liquid nitrogen. It should be at least 3/4 covered. Do this slowly, so the bottle doesn't crack (duh). Start either pumping O2 through one tube, or blowing air through it with a fan. Try to keep the bottle cold to make sure the oxygen will condense. Keep this up for an hour or so, or more if you are using a fan.
3. There should be a bluish liquid at the bottom of the glass. This is liquid oxygen! :D
4. Soak the fuel in the liquid oxygen. Use tongs so you don't freeze your hands. After the fuel is soaked throughly, you won't have very long until the oxygen evaporates again, so try to detonate it quickly, and from a safe distance.
That's it! according to the Wikipedia article on oxyliquits (found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyliquit)), these have a detonation velocity of about 3000m/s and can be 4%-12% more powerful than dynamite.
Reply back with any experiences you have with this, or any questions about it.
(Both liquid nitrogen and gaseous oxygen can be bought from a local welding supply store, some won't sell liquid nitrogen to you unless you have a special dewar...)
The first step is to make sure you have the materials. While it is easy to create, you will need some things that you might not all have.
1. Fuel (such as charcol, soot, aluminum powder, etc)
2. Liquid oxygen (this is hard to come by so instead you can use a strong glass bottle, liquid nitrogen(a few liters), a rubber stopper, oxygen(a tank would speed things up), and rubber tubing)
3. Appropriate safety gear
Steps (assuming you don't have liquid oxygen if so skip to step 4)
1. If you have an oxygen tank, attach it to the rubber tube, and have it lead into one end of the rubber stopper, another rubber tube should come out of the stopper, it is not necessary, but is helpful. Put the rubber stopper on a strong glass bottle, other materials with better heat conduction will work better.
2. Carefully place the bottle in a bath of liquid nitrogen. It should be at least 3/4 covered. Do this slowly, so the bottle doesn't crack (duh). Start either pumping O2 through one tube, or blowing air through it with a fan. Try to keep the bottle cold to make sure the oxygen will condense. Keep this up for an hour or so, or more if you are using a fan.
3. There should be a bluish liquid at the bottom of the glass. This is liquid oxygen! :D
4. Soak the fuel in the liquid oxygen. Use tongs so you don't freeze your hands. After the fuel is soaked throughly, you won't have very long until the oxygen evaporates again, so try to detonate it quickly, and from a safe distance.
That's it! according to the Wikipedia article on oxyliquits (found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyliquit)), these have a detonation velocity of about 3000m/s and can be 4%-12% more powerful than dynamite.
Reply back with any experiences you have with this, or any questions about it.
(Both liquid nitrogen and gaseous oxygen can be bought from a local welding supply store, some won't sell liquid nitrogen to you unless you have a special dewar...)