How to make C-1

Because I can't think of a good topic to write about, I was thinking maybe an insane one would suffice.


Seriously, you probably don't want to try this at home and if you do please be careful and make sure it's legal where you live.  I don't know the laws in your particular area but I guess this could have some legal uses in demolition work or something.  I'm just sharing a recipe and should not be held liable if you do something stupid with it.  Also, this stuff is crazy powerful and if you don't understand the instructions, in any way, don't mess with it.  You could kill yourself.

Ok, now that the disclaimer is out of the way...I was sitting around with writer's block and thought I should maybe just go back to what I originally started out blogging about.  Crazy ideas, improvised weapons, and kitchen chemistry.  LOL  :)

Without further ado (or adon't) let me break it down for you:
C-1 is 150%more powerful than T.N.T.
C-1 is 10% more powerful than C-4
It expands at a rate of 8850 meters per second when compressed into a cube at a density of 1.55g/cubic cm

What you'll need:
Ice
Table Salt
Distilled Water
Concentrated Nitric Acid - 550mls
Hexamine - 50grams (hexamine can be found in compressed fuel tablets in sporting goods stores)
Ammonium Nitrate (optional)

Equipment:
Blue Litmus Paper
Centigrade Thermometer
Large Beaker
Glass Stirring Rod
Funnel & Filter Paper
Ice Bath Container

Step by Step Procedure:
1. Place beaker in an ice bath and carefully add in the 550ml of nitric acid
2. Grind the fuel tablets into a fine powder
3. When the acid cools to below 20 degrees centigrade, CAREFULLY begin adding in SMALL amounts of the crushed hexamine fuel tablets.  Stir.  The temp will rise and must be kept below 30 degrees centigrade or KABOOM!  And if you get killed who would follow my blog?
4. Drop the temp to below 0.  You can do this by adding salt to the old ice bath, creating a new ice bath, or adding ammonium nitrate to the old ice bath.
5. Continue stirring for at least 20 minutes while keeping the temp below 0.
6. Pour the mixture into a liter of crushed ice. Shake, Stir, and allow to melt.  Once melted, filter out the crystals and dispose of the liquid.
7. Place crystals into a half liter of boiling water.  Then filter them out and test their acidity with the litmus paper. Repeat this step until the litmus paper doesn't change colour anymore, meaning you have boiled off all of the excess acid.
8.  To make the plasticizer mix by weight: 88.8% RDX (the crystals), 11.4% mineral oil, and 0.6% lecithin.  It's also possible that vaseline and wax in a 5 to 1 ratio could work for this.

That's really all there is to it.  It should be noted that you'll need an explosion to detonate this stuff and a fulminate would work well.  I would suggest checking out my earlier post titled ANTI for more info about that.

I'm almost a little hesitant to publish this post but I firmly believe in freedom of information, as well as the right to defend yourself in the coming zombie apocalypse, and besides, I'm pretty sure most people who would misuse explosives already know how to make them.