The children filled a torch with gunpowder extracted from matchsticks and inserted a battery, causing the torch to explode when it was switched on.
  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    High-school memories of extracting gunpower from bullets and making pipe-bombs. I also experimented with electronic detonators. Fun stuff and blossomed a life-long interest in chemistry. But yea really dangerous.