Written By ...<<>>... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuff you need 1) 50 parts water 2) 20 parts sugar (provides oxygen) 3) 1 part baking soda 4) 5 parts Corn Flakes (I'm not kidding, this is VITAL as a stabilizing agent) 5) 30 parts Charcoal (Very finely ground Fishtank charcoal- No Barbeque charcoal) 6) 10 parts Sulphur (You can sometimes get this at grocery stores [especially Kroger] in the drug section) 7) 30 parts Saltpetre (You can also get this at grocery stores sometimes. Kroger is the only one I know of but ther might be others. get it in the drug section.) 8) A Jar of Vaseline The Actions... 1) Get a deep metal pan to cook over the stove on and put the water in it. Stir in the sugar until it all dissolves. if you can't get all of the sugar to dissolve, add more water until all of the sugar has dissolved. Now stir in the baking soda until it dissolves. if you can't get all of the baking soda to dissolve, don't worry about it, just leave it. 2) Heat the pan over a medium flame (You don't need to stir) until it begins to boil. Now stir in the corn flakes until they are all in water and the whole thing begins to look like hot breakfast cereal. let the mixture sit on the burner until it begins to boil again. (This could be a long time or it could be a very short time depending on the water and the elevation, etc.) 3) As soon as the mixture begins to boil, stir it constantly until it is a sludgy mass that is sort of half solid and half liquid. 4) Now dump this mixture out onto a greased cookie pan (so it dosen't stick) It should be just solid enough to almost stay in a lump. Now mix in the Charcoal and the Sulphur. If it gets really gritty, don't worry. Just mix it together as well as you can. Now stick in the oven at 150 degrees. Make sure that is 150 degrees. if it is much higher, this stuff will burn up in your oven and take your whole house with it. Constantly monitor the pan until all of the sludge is baked dry and has no wetness in it at all. * 5) Get the pan out of the oven when it is ready and put it in the refrigerator or let it cool down by itself (The refrigerator is faster). Now take it out of the pan and pound it into dust. This might need to be done behind a blast shield because even though I have heard that it can't blow up or burn up if it is cool at this stage, When I pounded up my batch I made some sparks and so I got a blast shield just in case. * 6) When you have the dust. put it in a tupperware or something like that and put it, the saltpetre, and the vaseline in the fridge until they are all cold. This definately needs to be done behind a blast shield as this is the part where it gets very unstable. Get a cooler and fill it with ice and put an open container in the ice but don't let ice get in the container. Mix all of the dust and saltpetre together. Get a big glob of vaseline and get it nice and soft and quickly mix as much of the dust into it as you can. If the mixture get above about 35 degrees Celcius, it will blow up so try to not keep it in your hands too long (I definately advise wearing gloves to keep your hands from heating the mixture.) When you have mixed all of the dust possible into the lump of vaseline, drop it into the container in the cooler and get some more vaseline and make a new lump. When all of the dust is gone, close the container and put it in the fridge. When you want it to blow up (And it will blow up big!) just get it hot. We did both by sticking firecrackers in it and lighting them and running like hell (Very Dangerous!) and by model rocket ignition system model rocket igniters which we stuck in the stuff. If you are crazy and stupid enough to do this, then watch out! it is a good way to hurt yourself.