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What’s a hydrogen-peroxide bomb?

To whom it may concern, by asking this question I am in no way implying that myself or anyone I know has the intention of any wrong doing.

[Capt'n Mil Coll]

Hydrogen Peroxide is actually a very good explosive. In fact they used to use it for rocket fuel. It has to be distilled to a concentrate of 30% or more. As far as making a bomb out of it you just have to have some concentrated HP and the know how.

Most HP you buy in the store is 3% or less.

[Todd Bayliss]

Probably referring to acetone-peroxide (stupid journalists) which is what was used by the London bus bombers. If you see someone's backpack leaking gooey stuff, better safe than sorry...RUN!

I won't describe how to make it, it's easy to find on the internet but hard to do in practice without blowing yourself up. Kevin Murphy mixes up some in "Victim Selection Error" to use on the bad guys, but the method described would in reality only yield a very small amount of highly unstable product.

On the other hand, pouring equal parts of peroxide and bleach down a gopher or chipmunk hole yields a cloud of chlorine gas that will guarantee the critters won't come out again.

[Cyrano]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Capt'n Mil Coll

Hydrogen Peroxide is actually a very good explosive. In fact they used to use it for rocket fuel. It has to be distilled to a concentrate of 30% or more. As far as making a bomb out of it you just have to have some concentrated HP and the know how. Most HP you buy in the store is 3% or less.

It was used to power the Me-163 Komet rocket fighter in World War II. I think they called "T-Stoff." The liquid was extremely dangerous and corrosive. The Luftwaffe actually used distinctively-sized and colored fueling nozzles so they wouldn't put the two fuel components into the wrong tanks when they were readying a Komet for flight.

It was also used as the fuel in the Walter engine designed to power the last class of U-Boats, the ones that the US Navy ran for awhile and that served as the practical hull prototypes for the USS Nautilus. The Walter engine was not a total success because it had the annoying habit of spewing its exhaust fumes into the boat instead of ejecting them outboard; but it did offer the advantage of allowing a sub skipper to run totally submerged for extended periods without even having to raise the Snorkel. Had the class made it into service two years earlier instead of one boat making one patrol a few days before the war ended, at the very least the Battle of the Atlantic would have been extended instead of having been won for practical purposes before D-Day.

[big shrek]

More experimental bomb makers & drug chemists blow themselves up...and a few others nearby...than is reported by the news.

Many "Cooking accidents" are because the some schmuck(s) were cooking something they shouldn't have been. Saw my fair share back when I was F.D.'ing it. Lot of 'em were reported to the reporters as simple Kitchen Fires...but later you see the Felony section of the newspaper a few weeks later when the tox report comes back and a couple people living in that residence you put a fire out in get busted for drug manufacture....LOL