>Surely kids still try to make gunpowder, what are you talking about? The late Jerry Pournelle told a story (at least) once on a twit.tv podcast about how when

>Surely kids still try to make gunpowder, what are you talking about? The late Jerry Pournelle told a story (at least) once on a twit.tv podcast about how when he was a child the encyclopedias effectively told you how to make explosives, and he did, and damn near blew himself up dropping them into a pond while he was in a boat. More recently, as part of the firecrafter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firecrafter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firecrafter )line of patches here in Indiana in scouts in the mid-late 90s we were taught out to mix various automotive, and household, chemicals to create fires. One involved dipping cloth into an open-cell car battery, using some water purification tabs and some sugar (I think we used pixie sticks) IIRC.