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Can you use a 3D printer to make explosives? How does that work? I thought it was primarily a chemical process and a matter of getting precursor chemicals and c
by LatteLazy 6y ago
Can you use a 3D printer to make explosives? How does that work? I thought it was primarily a chemical process and a matter of getting precursor chemicals and controlling reactions...
Edit: I looked online and the only reference I find are using explosives (or precursors) as inputs to a 3d printer to make components that need them like airbags.
- NoImmatureAdHom 6y agoNo, you can't use a 3D printer to make explosives.
- LatteLazy 6y agoThanks, I was confused when the article claimed that and wondered if I'd missed some great new home-chemistry breakthrough!
- ctdonath 6y ago3D printers make shapes, not substances.
- ben_w 6y agoIn principle — and this would be a bad idea even just for the safety of the person running the printer — you could have a multi-head printer deposit powders of charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulphur in the same internal void while printing in a more conventional material. I don’t know of any four-head printers, and even if they exist this is a bad way to make gunpowder, but in principle it could be done.
- LatteLazy 6y agoThat's what I thought, the article seems to be nonsense...