Re: Liquid explosives

In message <44dc444a$0$12593$edfadb0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dated Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Frithiof Andreas Jensen <frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
If you do not provide adequate cooling during the nitration you will probably get a big yellow cloud of nitrous oxide;


Nitrous oxide is colourless and is a hypnotic/analgesic ('laughing gas').

nasty enough in itself but no Bang (maybe a rather long drawn-out choking-to-death experience from pulmonar edema (sp?) i.e. bleeding through the heart tissue). You want negative pressure ventiliation. And a big bowl of ice.

Nothing in that reaction produces any yellow gas. If it gets too hot, it produces nitric oxide (NO), which oxidizes immediately in air to nitrogen dioxide (NO2 or N2O4), which is reddish-brown. You wouldn't stay near it long enough to get pulmonary oedema unless you were trapped. It makes its unfriendly nature very clear to your eyes and nose in a few hundred milliseconds.
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