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n2o3 a legit supplier
I am trying to find nitric acid and sodium azide, which the website has, but the website seems kinda like a scam. Anyone with expeirence with that
website, I heard on some post, that it should be legit
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I can buy sodium azide from Amazon, well I live in India though.
Water is dangerous if you don't know how to handle it, elemental fluorine (F₂) on the other hand is pretty tame if you know what you are doing.
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Can you mension which website you are referring to so that I can ask my friends who live in th US.
Water is dangerous if you don't know how to handle it, elemental fluorine (F₂) on the other hand is pretty tame if you know what you are doing.
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Bro... in India you prob can also buy dynamite, but pretty interesting how india dosent regulates anything
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n2o3.com is a polish website heard on scienemadness that it should be legit but idk
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I've bought stuff from them a few times - DCM, THF and sodium nitrite, things that are otherwise hard to get. They're legit.
They went offline for a month or two, and sadly, their stock is now much reduced from what it used to be.
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I had a look and they seem to have a reduced set of compounds to sell, but repeated many times over different packages.
Anyways.
As an aside, I didn't know you made videos. It’s so nice to hear a British speaker from time to time. It seems the world of chemistry video has been
taken over by American or Aussie blokes… 
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I've now discovered this website (n2o3.com), but is it safe to buy from them? I saw they sell HNO3 with 55% conc. but is it safe (legal) to buy it if
it will be shipped to European countries?
Anyone with some experience?
[Edited on 9-6-2025 by AdamE]
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Quote: Originally posted by AdamE  | I've now discovered this website (n2o3.com), but is it safe to buy from them? I saw they sell HNO3 with 55% conc. but is it safe (legal) to buy it if
it will be shipped to European countries?
Anyone with some experience?
[Edited on 9-6-2025 by AdamE] |
If you look closer on the item, you’ll see a line ‘Restrictions: Enterprises only.’
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Well u can't buy dynamite though, and I hate that radioactive substances are tightly regulated here. But USA doesn't have any regulations on
radioactive substances. (I meant some substances like U and Th)
Water is dangerous if you don't know how to handle it, elemental fluorine (F₂) on the other hand is pretty tame if you know what you are doing.
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The US does have restrictions on uranium. Individuals can only own a prescribed amount (I forget the actual amount) of either natural or depleted
uranium (enriched is off the table). I don't think there are many restrictions on Th, though. Gas mantles and thoriated welding rods are still readily
available to consumers, no questions asked.
Dynamite used to be available in the US as well. They were marketed as M-80 firecrackers, which were just 1/4 of a stick of dynamite. I don't think
they're legal in most states now, if at all.
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| Quote: Originally posted by chempyre235 | The US does have restrictions on uranium. Individuals can only own a prescribed amount (I forget the actual amount) of either natural or depleted
uranium (enriched is off the table). I don't think there are many restrictions on Th, though. Gas mantles and thoriated welding rods are still readily
available to consumers, no questions asked.
Dynamite used to be available in the US as well. They were marketed as M-80 firecrackers, which were just 1/4 of a stick of dynamite. I don't think
they're legal in most states now, if at all. |
I meant that India has restrictions on radioactive substances including U and Th.
Water is dangerous if you don't know how to handle it, elemental fluorine (F₂) on the other hand is pretty tame if you know what you are doing.
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| Quote: Originally posted by chempyre235 | The US does have restrictions on uranium. Individuals can only own a prescribed amount (I forget the actual amount) of either natural or depleted
uranium (enriched is off the table). I don't think there are many restrictions on Th, though. Gas mantles and thoriated welding rods are still readily
available to consumers, no questions asked.
Dynamite used to be available in the US as well. They were marketed as M-80 firecrackers, which were just 1/4 of a stick of dynamite. I don't think
they're legal in most states now, if at all. |
Reading this brought me back to the 1970s, when I first heard this urban legend told.
As you may have surmised, it is, in fact, an urban legend, and a pretty clumsily constructed one at that. There's a huge difference between
deflagration, which is what firecrackers do, and detonation, which is what dynamite does. They are not equivalent, and have never been treated as
such, especially when it comes to things one could buy over the counter.
While it's not comprehensive, if you want to learn more about the fireworks, you can start here.
[Edited on 2025/6/10 by davidfetter]
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| Quote: Originally posted by davidfetter |
Reading this brought me back to the 1970s, when I first heard this urban legend told.
As you may have surmised, it is, in fact, and urban legend, and a pretty clumsily constructed one at that. There's a huge difference between
deflagration, which is what firecrackers do, and detonation, which is what dynamite does. They are not equivalent, and have never been treated as
such, especially when it comes to things one could buy over the counter.
While it's not comprehensive, if you want to learn more about the fireworks, you can start here. |
Yeah, this takes me back too, to the 1980s in my case. The "quarter sticks" were called M-250s, and I assumed that was just an equivalent, and not
actual dynamite. But I thought flash powder could still in fact detonate? Is this not true?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Metallophile | | Quote: Originally posted by davidfetter |
Reading this brought me back to the 1970s, when I first heard this urban legend told.
As you may have surmised, it is, in fact, and urban legend, and a pretty clumsily constructed one at that. There's a huge difference between
deflagration, which is what firecrackers do, and detonation, which is what dynamite does. They are not equivalent, and have never been treated as
such, especially when it comes to things one could buy over the counter.
While it's not comprehensive, if you want to learn more about the fireworks, you can start here. |
Yeah, this takes me back too, to the 1980s in my case. The "quarter sticks" were called M-250s, and I assumed that was just an equivalent, and not
actual dynamite. But I thought flash powder could still in fact detonate? Is this not true?
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With careful arranging, which I will not describe here, it's possible to get flash powder to detonate. That arranging is expensive and fundamentally
dangerous, even by the standards of fireworks manufacture, so it has, at least statistically speaking, never been done for fireworks.
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That's fascinating. I knew how dynamite was made, but I didn't know that M80s weren't it. Honestly, I haven't seen M80s since I was seven or eight.
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