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How to make Potassium Nitrate
Potassium Nitrate is an ingredient in making fuses, among other things. Here is how you make it:
Materials needed:
3.5 gallons of nitrate bearing earth or other material
1/2 cup of wood ashes
Bucket or other similar container about 4-5 gallons in volume
2 pieces of finely woven cloth, each a bit bigger than the bottom of the bucket
Shallow dish or pan at least as large in diameter as the bucket
Shallow, heat resistant container
2 gallons of water
Something to punch holes in the bottom of the bucket
1 gallon of any type of alcohol
A heat source
Paper & tape
Procedure:
- Punch holes on the inside bottom of the bucket, so that the metal is"puckered" outward from the bottom
- Spread cloth over the holes from the bottom
- Place wood ashes on the cloth. Spread it out so that it covers the entire cloth and has about the same thickness.
- Place 2nd cloth on top of the wood ashes
- Place the dirt or other material in the bucket
- Place the bucket over the shallow container.
NOTE: It may need support on the bottom so that the holes on the bottom are not blocked.
- Boil water and pour it over the earth very slowly. Do NOT pour it all at once, as this will clog the filter on the bottom.
- Allow water to run through holes into the shallow dish on the bottom.
- Be sure that the water goes through ALL of the earth!
- Allow water in dish to cool for an hour or so
- Carefully drain the liquid in the dish away, and discard the sludge in the bottom
- Boil this liquid over a fire for at least two hours. Small grains of salt will form - scoop these out with the paper as they form
- When the liquid has boiled down to 1/2 its original volume let it sit
- After 1/2 hour, add equal volume of the alcohol; when this mixture is poured through paper, small white crystals appear. This is the posassium nitrate.
Purification:
- Redissolve crystals in small amount of boiling water
- Remove any crystals that appear
- Pour through improvised filter then heat concentrated solution to dryness.
- Spread out crystals and allow to dry
Chemical Equivalency List:
Acacia.............................Gum Arabic
Acetic Acid...........................Vinegar
Aluminum Oxide.........................Alumia
Aluminum Potassium Sulphate..............Alum
Aluminum Sulfate.........................Alum
Ammonium Carbonate..................Hartshorn
Ammonium Hydroxide....................Ammonia
Ammonium Nitrate...................Salt Peter
Ammonium Oleate..................Ammonia Soap
Amylacetate.......................Bananna Oil
Barium Sulfide......................Black Ash
Carbon Carbinate........................Chalk
Carbontetrachloride............Cleaning Fluid
Calcium Hypochloride.........Bleaching Powder
Calcium Oxide............................Lime
Calcium Sulfate..............Plaster of Paris
Carbonic Acid.........................Seltzer
Cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide...Ammonium Salt
Ethylinedichloride................Dutch Fluid
Ferric Oxide........................Iron Rust
Furfuraldehyde.......................Bran Oil
Glucose............................Corn Syrup
Graphite..........................Pencil Lead
Hydrochloric Acid...............Muriatic Acid
Hydrogen Peroxide....................Peroxide
Lead Acetate....................Sugar of Lead
Lead Tero-oxide......................Red Lead
Magnesium Silicate.......................Talc
Magnesium Sulfate..................Epsom Salt
Methylsalicylate.............Winter Green Oil
Naphthalene.........................Mothballs
Phenol..........................Carbolic Acid
Potassium Bicarbonate.........Cream of Tarter
Potassium Chromium Sulfate.........Chromealum
Potassium Nitrate..................Salt Peter
Sodium Oxide.............................Sand
Sodium Bicarbonate................Baking Soda
Sodium Borate...........................Borax
Sodium Carbonate.................Washing Soda
Sodium Chloride..........................Salt
Sodium Hydroxide..........................Lye
Sodium Silicate.........................Glass
Sodium Sulfate.................Glauber's Salt
Sodium Thiosulfate........Photographer's Hypo
Sulfuric Acid....................Battery Acid
Sucrose............................Cane Sugar
Zinc Chloride..................Tinner's Fluid
Zinc Sulfate....................White Vitriol
Where To Find Ingredients
Anyone can get many chemicals from hardware stores, supermarkets, and drug stores to get the materials to make explosives or other dangerous compounds. A would-be terrorist would merely need a station wagon and some money to acquire many of the chemicals named here.
Chemical Used In
alcohol, ethyl * Alcoholic Beverages/solvents (95% min. for both)
ammonia + CLEAR household ammonia
ammonium instant-cold paks,
nitrate fertilizers
nitrous oxide pressurizing whip cream
magnesium Firestarters
lecithin vitamins
mineral oil cooking, laxative
mercury mercury thermometers
sulfuric acid uncharged car batteries
sulfur gardening
charcoal charcoal grills
sodium nitrate fertilizer
cellulose (cotton) first aid
strontium nitrate road flares
fuel oil kerosene stoves
bottled gas propane stoves
potas.permanganate water purification
hexamine/methenamine hexamine stoves
nitric acid ^ cleaning printing
Iodine& disinfectant (tinture)
sodium perchlorate solidox pellets
^ Nitric acid is very difficult to find nowadays. It is usually stolen by bomb makers. A desired concentration for making explosives about 70%.
& The iodine sold in drug stores is usually not the pure crystaline form that is desired for producing ammonium triiodide crystals. To obtain the pure form, it must usually be acquired by a doctor's prescription, but this can be expensive. Once again, theft is the means that terrorists result to. |
