Talk:Exploding trousers
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[edit] When my trousers explode, I tend to die
My legs tend to fall off, I'm afraid. Augustulus 00:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] As any fule kno!
Mixing sodium chlorate weedkiller with a combustible organic to make an explosive is one of the oldest tricks in the schoolboy chemist's book! I did this when i was little, having learned the trick from someone probably forty years older - we used blotting paper as the fuel, and rolled it up and stuffed it in a cigar tube to make a rocket. It really shouldn't have taken any great feat of science to work that one out.
-- Tom Anderson 2008-02-29 1647 +0000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.81.12 (talk) 16:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
