At 09:33 AM 8/2/96 -0000, Conrad Walton wrote:

i'm not exactly sure what an acid bomb is, but according to my book, The Anarchist Cookbook, that I bought in 1972 (was the internet around back then?), there is a compound called "picric acid" that is "more powerful than TNT, but has some disadvantages".

Picric acid is 2,4,6 trinitrophenol, easily produced by the nitric/sulfuric acid nitration of phenol. If picric acid contains about 15% of water or more, it is rather stable and innocuous. If it is allowed to completely dry out, it then becomes sensitive to detonation with a blasting cap. One disadvantage of picric acid is that it reads with heavy metals (copper, lead, etc) to form unstable picrate salts.

There is also instructions on using an inverted vial of sulpheric acid, that will then eat thu the stopper at the top (bottom) of the vial. when the acid makes it thru, then is mixes with Potassium Chloride

Potassium _Chlorate_ and causes

a small explosion which sets off the larger explosion in the dynomite packed around it.

It would probably require a booster... Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com