magnesium powder ?
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 3:06 a.m. - Subject: magnesium powder ? |
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well my friend is a plumber and they use heavy duty nail guns in them you put these little cartridges. the cartridges are brass and seem to possibly explode to sent the nail flying. well i opened them up and there this metal filing looking stuff in them. i lit it on fire and it burnt quite fast i think it could be poorly powdered magnesium but how would that send a nail flying. can someone tell me what the metal stuff in them is.
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 3:24 a.m. - Subject: |
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well i DOUBT it was magniesium, as THAt burns -HOT-
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 3:56 a.m. - Subject: |
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It wasn’t magnesium powder. Trust me.
Did it go up with a puff sound? or just burn fairly quickly? It is some kinda explosive no doubt. Probaly some kind of black powder.
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 3:57 a.m. - Subject: |
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some kind of black powder? o.O
erm, you mean there are more then one KIND of BLACK POWDER?
it probabley WAS black powder =P
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 3:48 a.m. - Subject: |
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it looks like small metal chips. and it burns fairly strong and bright but i don’t know if its strong enough for firecrackers and i don’t wanna waste casing and stuff.
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 4:01 a.m. - Subject: |
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It’s smokeless powder numbnuts. You know, gun powder? Nitrocellulose based propellant. Same shit that’s in bullets. There could be a composition variation for the application (compared to real bullets) but probably not. Check the casing for a primer. If there’s a primer then it’s smokeless powder. And even more obviously, does it emit much smoke when you burn it?
Does it look like this?
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 4:26 a.m. - Subject: |
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lol... I’m a dumbass...
And what I ment by some kind of black powder was that it could have been a slightly different composition to make it burn slower or something...
Ether way Po owns us...
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 5:10 a.m. - Subject: |
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yes po it looks like that but there doesn’t appear to be a primer but the end of the bullet like thing looks a bit like a big primer.
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 12:08 p.m. - Subject: |
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seems like black powder ir something. i have no idea, maybe like really lowgrade gun powder.
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2007 12:57 p.m. - Subject: |
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Try lighting finely powdered magnesium with a match, then tell me when the skin on your hands grows back.
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