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Potassium nitrate

06/22/2009 5:27 PM

i'm new to this forum, i registered because i need some help. I'm not interested too much in chemistry but i need some help. I need to find KNO3 known as Potassium Nitrate. I need it to make a smoke bomb :P like the ones on youtube. I found out that Potassium nitrate is Saltpetre but when i searched for it in the chemist's shop they told me that their saltpetre is with amonium nitrate. Is there any way to find potassium nitrate ?>

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I found some powders at my old house, it used to be my grandmothers, she was a teacher.. the point is .. there are few plastic bottles with white powder and one of them is potassium nitrate but i dont know which one. How can i find out which one is KNO3. Btw i know that there is pottasium nitrate in one of those bottles because its written on a peace of paper but its not sticked to the bottle, :/
Please help :P

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06/22/2009 5:46 PM

You could kill yourself, or others by making bombs. Forget the idiots on YouTube and try something constructive.

No one here will help you!

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Re: Potassium nitrate

06/22/2009 7:51 PM

I'm not interested too much in chemistry but i need some help

You really need to know what you are doing before attempting to play with chemicals, especially Saltpeter. Just because it is a "smoke bomb" doesn't mean it cannot explode if mixed or prepared incorrectly.

Please leave it to the professionals and buy a smoke bomb or smoke device from a local magic or special effects shop. Especially don't play with unknown chemicals, as one chemicals test solution (to test if it is a certain chemical or compound) is another's reactant (causing it to react in unpredictable and potentially hazardous ways).

There may be a much safer way of producing the effect, what exactly is the application?

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