golfpro,
if your are wasting silver for making SADS detonator, this mean you can try to make mercury fulminate instead. It is easy to synthesis and a powerful
initiating explosive. All waht you need is mercury, nitric acid and ordinary ethanol (no need for dehydrated ethanol). Mercury fulminate was used in
the past in detonator but replaced by lead azide because of it's toxicity. A mixture of 90/10 mercury fulminate/potassium chlorate is a good example
of powerful initiating explosive for detonator applications.
Dany. |