my idea for TNT to help with mining is as follows:
We create nitrogen, by making amonia, annd add it to gunpowder to create TNT, explained;
all numbers are guessed suggesgions
we create ambrosia using a harber tank.
this is made of:100 steel plates (for pressurised tank) 50 iron (catalyst) 50 Steel (pipes) 50 concrete (concrete lining in the pipes) 40 copper sheeting (boiling tower) 6 brass plates (super heating, 4 for main tank, 2 for boiling tower)
this is then altered as followes:
this follows the harber procces:
nitrogen (taken from air) is combined with hydrogen (super heated water) and passed over an iron catalyst in a pressiorised chamber at around 450 degrees C. the amonia is then cooled and unused nitrogen and hydrogen are sent back through.
You then make nitric acid by boiling in a kettle, 5 amonia + 5 water with 5 wood = 2 nitric acid
(1 platinum required for catalyst, it is retuned at the end)
5 tar + 5 water + 5 wood boiled in a kettle.
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Yay, the more chemistry we can bring to Egypt the better.....
Mind you, if you try to make ammonia in copper or brass pipes, you probably wont be around too long - amines corrode copper like, well, a very corrosive thing. Steel might be better, or if we're going for reality then maybe glass-lined reaction vessels - so 50 sheet glass + 100 steel?
For TNT, need some toluene - how about distilled tar?
Then nitric acid + sulphuric acid (presumably thats the acid made in a kettle from sulphurous water) + extract of tar + heat ---> TNT.
Of course, to be realistic there would have to be a 60% chance of blowing yourself and your neighbours up :)
P.S. Welcome back :) Helpmaboab, the eejit who thinks chemistry is fun
Zatarg- got a pont there lol
Necromancerking hmmm good point... i'll work this out, and i realised that to make Nitric acid you need a platinum catalyst... so u need 1 platinum in ur inventry to make it..... you get it back of course....