Reply #91: Yes

[mogster]

From the BBC about 'liquid explosives' - now a new keyword:

"Specialist knowledge or equipment needed to make?

If someone wanted to obtain a solid high explosive in a liquid form, it would not be difficult for a trained chemical technologist.

But if someone was using a backyard laboratory it is more likely they would go for the two component approach.

Not a lot of experience is needed, the principles are quite simple but it would be a hazardous process of trial and error.

I would not want to be messing about these things. It has been known for schoolboys to go home and attempt this and blow their house up."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4780391.stm?ls
'It has been known for schoolboys to go home and attempt this'
In Norway, an article said it could be made from ordinary household stuff.

What if the household stuff wasn't even mixed together, just placed around in various cupboards? :shrug:

Note the Ipod and Gatorade, very modern stuff, like. Banned now.

An Norwegian officer in the Defense ammunition and EOD school, Even Mølmshaug, says:

"- I know a couple of elements that may be usable, these are nitrogen-rich elements, liquid methylnitrate you might get an explosion out of.
He mentions slurry as a way of blowing up dikes, but that is a thick porridge.
He don't know a sure way of making a thin liquid with enough explosive power to destroy an airplane.
- If you mix explosives in alcohol, you need a booster to set it off. A cell phone or an iPod wouldn't be enough."
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/08/10/473563.html