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.........       Formulas for different-colored smoke screens        ..........
.........                      by: Sour Apple                       ..........
.........           Typed for The Kingdom of the Dead BBS           ..........
.........                      (509) 927-9120                       ..........
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  An interestiong aspect of explosives is the extra ingredients which can be
added to give the explosion characteristics it would not normally have. A smoke
bomb is like this, in sense that it is not only useful to create confusion and
chaos, but also for smoking persons out of an enclosed area, as well as
signaling.

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Formulas for the preparation of a black smoke screen:

1) magnesium powder   19                          2) magnesium powder   20
   hexachloroethane   60                             hexachloroethane   60
   naphthalene        21                             naphthalene        20

3) hexachloroethane   55.8                        4) black powder FFF   50
   alpha naphol       14                             potassium nitrate  10
   athracene           4.6                           coal tar           20
   aluminum powder     9.3                           powdered charcoal  15
   smokless powder    14                             paraffin            5
   naphthalene         2.3
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Formulas for the preparation of a white smoke screen:

1) potassium chlorate 44                          2) zinc dust          28
   sulfur flour       15                             zinc oxide         22
   zinc dust          40                             hexachloroethane   50
   sodium bicarbonate  1

3) zinc dust          66.67
   hexachloroethane   33.33
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Formulas for the preparation of a yellow smoke screen:

1) potassium chlorate 25                          2) potassium chlorate 30
   paranitraniline    50                             naphthalene azodimethyl
   lactrose           25                             aniline            50
                                                     powdered sugar     20

3) potassium chlorate 21.4
   naphthalene        50
   azodimethyl aniline 2.7
   auramine           38
   sodium bicarbonate 28.5
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Formulas for the preparation of a green smoke screen:

1) potassium nitrate  20
   red arsenic        20
   sulfer flour       20
   antimony sulfide   20
   black powder FFF   20
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Formulas for the preparation of a red smoke screen:

1) potassium chlorate  20                         2) potassium chlorate 26
   lactose             20                            diethylaminorosindone
   paranitraniline red 60                                               48
                                                     powdered sugar     26

3) potassium chlorate  27.4                       4) potassium
   methylaminoanthra-                                perchlorate        25
   quinone             42.5                          antimony sulfide   20
   sodium bicarbonate  19.5                          rhodamine red      50
   sulfur flour        10.6                          dextrin             5
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I will NOT be held responsible by the actions of the people that try this stuff
and I present this as information only.
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-______________________________ April 27, 1988 _______________________________-

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