Warning: Possession of explosives homemade or otherwise, are illegal in the United States unless you have a license.
This was emailed to be some time back.
WARNING:
Handling of dangerous chemicals like acid is extremely dangerous and requires training and proper safety equipment.
Mixing chemicals together such as an acid with a reacting base is hazardous and may cause severe injury even death. There is no way to predict when one of these types of homemade bombs will actually go off.
What's an acid bomb?
A plastic bottle filled with an acid and a reacting base.
Acid bombers make use of the same type of chemical reaction that causes vinegar and baking soda to bubble up when you mix them together. The Acid bomb makers fill a bottle with hydrochloric acid or something else with a low pH, and add a strong base, like drain-clearing liquid. They might replace one of these ingredients with aluminum foil, which can react with either an acid or a base.
Then, they shake it up.
If they're using the right kind of base, the combination of the chemicals will produce a gas.
For vinegar and baking soda, it's carbon dioxide.
The gas builds up pressure inside the sealed bottle until it explodes.
An acid bomb, which is also called a "bottle bomb" or a "MacGyver bomb" doesn't have a timer to set or a fuse to light, and you can't predict exactly when it will explode.
If your device works, its contents should begin to bubble after you shake it up, and the plastic bottle may swell before it bursts. The whole process generally takes a minute to begin, which supposedly gives the bomber a short time to make a getaway.
The video clip below shows how long one acid bomb may take before it ignites.
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