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Nitrogen Triiodide Explosions

Action:

    Walking into a room, a person is startled by sharp cracking sounds at his feet as he steps on small pieces of paper.  Touching the paper lightly with a meter stick brings about small but sharp explosion.

You need:

1. Five grams iodine
2. three grams potassium iodide
3. 20 ml. concentrated ammonium hydroxide
4. filter paper
5. funnel.

Why:

    Nitrogen triiodide, when dry, explodes with the slightest disturbance.

How:

1. Stir the potassium iodide and iodine together in a beaker with 50 ml. of water
2. Add the ammonium hydroxide with stirring until no more precipitate forms
3. Filter and spread a thin layer of the wet solid on several filter papers
4. Break the filter papers into many small pieces and allow to dry for several hours
5. On drying, the paper is extremely sensitive to touch and will explode violently with the slightest disturbance.

Caution:

    The compound nitrogen triiodide can be safely handled when wet.  Spreading a thin layer of the wet material on several pieces of filter paper lessens the violence of each explosion.  It is not a powerful explosion but a rather sensitive one.  The touch of a feather can set it off.

 UNDER NO CONDITION ALLOW ANY SIZEABLE QUANTITY OF THE DRY MATERIAL TO ACCUMULATE.

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