Hey all!!!
Over the summer i had a accident involving a blasting cap exploding and getting lots of shrapnel flying everywhere:eek: ( some went in my hand, body and leg).I had to go to hospital and get it all surgically removed.
After the accident i decided to lay of the old explosives for a while and stick with good old chemisty!:)
As a result of a good few years making explosives i have accumulated a large amount of things like Nitric acid ( 70%) and goodness knows how much sulphuric acid (96%). Does anybody have any good ideas of what i can do with these potentially dangerous chemicals?
I though about neutralising them with calcium carb but then i thought that would be one hell of a waste!
Any suggestions welcome! :)

Donate them to someone else who you know is a pyro.

Yea; don't destroy them. It's too hard to collect stuff. Accidents happen and in time you may just REALLY want that stuff back. It's not a good thing for the environment to dispose of that stuff haphazardly anyway. I'll bet if you wait less than a year you'll want them - BAD. This stuff gets in your blood. - You had an accident and learned from it. That's not new to many people (Falling Off the Horse). It's getting back on that's important.

In Mega's words, give it to me. :)


Store the stuff away until you come across some synths that require it. Find a use for a chemical, not a chemical for a use.

Yeah, if you really don't want them, neutralize them with calcium carbonate or calcium hydroxide and use it as fertilizer. Just toss it on your yard, I guess.

You might want to save a small amout of the "dangerous" acids since they are useful in a myraid of chemical proceedures other than explosives (like analytical chemistry, etc).

In order to preserve them until their service is once again required, you can always use them to form readily decomposed salts, like copper nitrate. I am sure that there is some sulfate salt that can be decomposed easily, too. Salts are usually much safer for long-term storage than acids.

I agree with most people. Shelve them until you feel comfortable working
with them again. I've had accidents, including a flareup that blew off my
eyebrows. I've just learned to be more careful and get a little more paranoid
about safety. I won't give up my experimentation. BTW, all body parts are
still intact.

Thanks guys for all the replys.
I think i will just store them in a locked cupboard, in the garage, until i feel redy to use them again.

Periodically open that thing up and smell 'em.....touch 'em....Lovingly hold the bottles and re-read their labels. You'll soon open one and KNOW that you have to experiment once again.

On a serious note; you should check on them. The little darlings need to be checked on periodically.