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Well done Steve, an enthralling story.
Looking forward to the next instalment. :=)
Actually it's been dead easy to get to the mercury oxide stage. I chuckle to think that the one UK stockist refused to sell me any cos I wasn't big enough, so two fingers to them I just went away and made my own,
If security was their concern, perhaps the goons would have been better off selling me a quantity. As things stand I've made some, and no one knows how much or where I am, or if I am holding ethanol (which basically makes the concoction into mercury fulminate). Like I said, goons.
Same to the battery big incs, cut the supply?...no problem I'll just make my own! No one's gonna force me into deliberate obsolescence.
It's quite a satisfying achievement to learn that the principle component is a chemical you're not allowed to buy, and end up with home brew in a test tube. Looking at it right now, beautiful red powder. Certainly enough to get a test cell built and did it all with nothing more than an old thermometer and some nitric acid.
I'd disclose where I got the nitric acid but not wishing the kill joy authorities an opportunity to remove the supply I can't remember where I got it from, but you can get a litre for about 8 quid...and that makes a lot of mercury nitrate.
Last edited on Mon Jun 4th, 2012 05:46 by steve of oxford