Dug - 2023-09-28
This stuff is so incredibly interesting. I never learned chemistry and I don’t understand hardly any of this: but seeing the process and precautions it shows how sophisticated energetics are and how interesting the process is. You’re a smart dude. Hold an AK is and forever will be my anthem. Thanks for being around and sharing your awesomeness. Hope life is treating you and your kin wonderfully. God Bless.
Routes to guanidine from urea are of interest to those of us who dabble in reloading primers, tetrazene and related tetrazoles. The urea/AN/silica gel route is well known, i am trying to perfect the calcium cyanamide/ hydrazine sulfate route to AGB. Some things are not so easily acquired as they used to be
please let me know if you finish your route, so I can try it. : )
@@duganashley1337 so..after further consideration...the condensation route with silica gel/AN/ but substituting biuret instead of urea, yields are pretty decent..i.e. 6O%. Bi-uret is easy enough to prepare, more a less a condensed form of urea with CO2 and NH2 removed somewhat. Far less heat is required in this path, 190-299C temps versus 700-800C for making Ca Cyanamide
Prefer the oxidation of Dicyandiamid with 25% Hcl and 35% HNO3. Should work with Melamine too.
Guanidine nitrate is readily available here in the U.S. Simple to get nitroguanidine from there.
Not long enough. Thanks for putting this together. Very informative and approachable.
Ultrasonicated NQ. In the recrystallization process right after it fully dissolves into the hot water, if you put the vessel into an ultrasonic cleaner the crystals will drop out of solution within 5 minutes. They are the same fiberglass looking crystals but they are very small. After you brought up uNAP it made me think about it and yup. Some additional crystals will form while the solution is cooling but they will also be small, about the size of crude NQ crystals.
Very informative, great video dug.
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Just wow! Best energetic video ever!!!
Your the best doug.
I could listen to you talk for hours straight buddy!
Damm man what a great in depth video! :)
I’m glad I found this channel
Was just watching your old stuff man. Glad to get some more education and seeing you doing so well.
too long??? Man I was sad it ended.... this channel is awesome. Thanks mate.
Wow the stuff forms long needle crystals that look almost like fiberglass. Would be a royal pain to compact enough to use it alone. Would do well to mix with other energetics to make a composite material. ❤
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That packed silica column, in my experience, is probably amberlyst catalyst.
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And I've just been bossing cat's cradle with my 550 garrot!
Rewatching this and was thinking that since NQ is so insensitive that ball milling it would make it a lot easier to press for much higher density without the need for a melt cast carrier. Just a thought.
Good idea! Do it in a protected area though, just in case.
@@duganashley1337 If you don't want the big crystals wouldn't it be a worth trying to crash it out on crushed ice in the last purification step instead of letting it cool down slowly?
We all wish CarniK Con could be a thing again. Sigh.
I loved Carnik Con, but you're a complete fool if you want more of that over this content...
If one can obtain cheap dicyandiamide from chem supply, fusing it with ammonium nitrate gives a high yield of guanidine nitrate.
ANQN is good, but the nitric acid in that molecule will lost (evaporate) during storage, its decomposition temperature is also low.
ANQN is only suitable to be used in the protection of a water resistant carrier like an aliphatic melt. Ionic carriers like trinitro phenol are not suitable because of metathesis. TNT or low temp ionic nitrate melt carriers are needed. --I will attempt to cover CaCN2 production hopefully this winter. BMR process can also be reproduced on the amateur scale. Either route works well. Cyanamide route is higher yielding and more manageable in large batch IMO
@@duganashley1337 Thanks for replying. I don't know what is BMR process, could you tell me more about this?
I had thought about coating ANQN with PIB to stabilize it and make some powerful PBX, but I haven't tried it yet.
I don't want to mess with TNT since it produces too much waste water.
I've also thought about mixing it with ETN or blasting gel, but considering the unstable nitric acid might cause decomposition of nitroester, I gave up this thought.
I've also made nitriminotetrazole salts by directly reacting ANQ with nitrites, but the yield is not high.
Maybe I should try to acidify it first then add nitrite to it like 5-AT's procedure.
I had prepared CaCN2 once by heating urea and calcium oxide and then pyrolyze it inside a metal can. But after I notice that I can buy it as furtilizer (Though impure as starting material, but it gives me pure aminoguanidine), I stop making it myself since it is time-consuming.
I've only used CaCN2 to make tetrazole derivatives.
Since I'm in Taiwan, It's not very convenient for me to do too much stinky(ammonia) experiments.
I really love your channel, and I'm looking forward to what you might share in the future.
@@duganashley1337nitro-aminotetrazole is useful for Stabanate type primers, that is my pursuit.
Is the critical diameter a concern when choosing a secondary for detonators? I like NQ because of its insensitivity, but if it’s not well suited to small diameter caps ETN may be the better choice.
To be honest Ive never tried to detonate at small diameter, but it is incredibly insensitive. My secondary output of choice is PETN or ETN or Pb NATz
@@duganashley1337 how would you go about collecting crystals like this to pack and press? Grinding any energetic compound makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
@@WizardVespian You can grind NQ. I wont tell you it will never detonate, because it's an explosive, but if you use an extension cord with a blender blocked my some dirt to catch frag, I think it would be fine for a competent person to do. It is incredibly insensitive. It is difficult to detonate with primary explosives.
@@WizardVespian You might try NQ/ETN melt. The sample I worked on ended up pretty well. It totally eliminated low density and the ETN will sensitize it to reasonable level. I would probably still grind it though before melting. Melting the needles in took about three melts.
@@duganashley1337 how do you source/synthesize your pentaerythritol?
awesome, lots of stuff not easily available to laymen.
Alright I got to ask. How aggressively do you wash your clothes? I see the rubber boots on the washing machine.
1, 3 nitro aminoguanidinium nitrate (ANQN) is one I'm looking at currently for a few different uses, just haven't gotten around to making it yet. Great channel! Ps, are you buying your guanidine or making it?
I buy it around $10/lb but urea route is realistic if you have the patience.-- I will cover ANQN a little later. It is high power but does lose nitrates in ambient condition.
@@duganashley1337 I recognized one of the bags after commenting, pryochemsource? I bought some ammonium perchlorate from them last year. $10 per pound is a good price, I'll probably make some for the experience and buy some for the sake of time it'll save making more. Thanks!
Yes they carry large qty GuN. Not sure if still $10/lb but they should have it@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252
@@duganashley1337do you buy your AQ, or are you reducing the nitrate?
Ok, just a thought. Why not use ultrasonics like you did with nap? Wouldn't that reduce the crystal structure to get a higher density? Actual question, I figure if it works for nap, why wouldn't it work for NQ?
it does work for NQ. It should work for anything as far as I know.
Sorry , this was one of those thoughts, that just came out without saying hey if the long needle structure is a problem for density, what if we used ultrasonic for smaller crystals, like Nap.
@@trinitro5968 It's a good thought! You are correct, I just wanted to let you know that I tried it and it does work, at scale it requires a powerful ultrasonic machine. Im using cheap one, I can recrystallize maybe a couple of grams of NQ in ultrasonic, then it becomes too much and starts crystallizing normally
Good job!
thanks!
Just found this channel and found your email sent you a private message i don't know your background but you seem very informed
Nitroguanidine Nitrat
Do you think Nitroguanadine can be used with ETN together into a meltcast my question is will the molten ETN lower the melting point of nitroguanadine too and form hight density melt with good oxygen balance ?
Possibly. Ive read that NQ doesnt melt into ETN well. Not sure if true. IMO ETN is too sensitive to use in melted manipulation beyond small non-lethal scale. Aspartic nitrate can melt a large amount of NQ. It forms a solid white NQ plastic that hardens on cooling. Probably near max density. AspNO3 is hygroscopic. It is very easily made from HNO3 and aspartic acid.
@@duganashley1337 Intresting there is not much information on aspartic nitrate in the internet but results of tests like this would be intresting. Even ammonium nitrate mixes containing NQ would be very intresting to observe.
Im putting together an ETN overview video right now. There is a mention of NQ density in video. I will include some lab video from my studies on NQ amino melts. There isnt much online about it because it's a current energetic field of research. There is no literature on melting NQ other than Nigutol and NQ/AN eutectic melts. aspNO3 ability to plasticize NQ is unknown to literature or public. @@nfpa4957
@@duganashley1337 Ok it will be interesting to watch good work on the other videos tho.
I think I read somewhere that the crystals are hollow, and that is what contributes to the low density.
If so, and you can melt it into the tiny cavity you'd probably struck a jackpot.
Reminds me of dynamite. If the NQ crystals could be made to absorb NG and desensitize the NG in the process you'd probably have a compound with interesting properties.
If it was left to recrystallize in an ultrasonic bath, would that change the structure of those long matted crystals and turn it into something you could get to higher density with less effort? Or is that just old news i missed out on because YouTube cucks me out of quality content i deserve as a free American
Good catch, it's annoying to mix this shit into anything.
That's something we've been talking about on the discord. You'd just need a large enough ultrasonic cleaner. A Russian paper we found says that if you add urea nitrate or ammonium sulfate to the recryst water the NQ will form smaller, denser crystals.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 how do I get in the discord to share my own research? I was looking for a link.
Where can we watch his content?
Still waiting for NQ part 2 😅
Where do you get the method of preparation? Is there a book explaining how to prepare it?
Goto college.
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It looks like salicylic acid as far as needle crystals and cotton candy/insulation fluffy/sponginess
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