A warning to chemists. tetramine copper (II) nitrate

Never EVER try this or any similar experiment. This was a stupid mistake on my part and i should never have done this. I misread the compound when i was researching it and thought it was a different tetramine of copper. when i smelt ammonia i knew i had done something wrong so i rushed to my laptop and looked up the reaction. turns out i made a high explosive instead of a simple reagent. theres no video of this exploding because i del with it before it went off but please never ever try this, you can loose your hand or other body parts. i stress this because any aspiring chemists may be lazy and just jump into an experiment without fully researching it. do not try this. ever.

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[uut0]

does that also happen if i add copper(II)nitrate?

[TheChemlife]

@uut0 no idea and u shouldn't try what part of extremely dangerous are u missing? :P

[kemirockarfett]

This reacion will not give you TACN. Its very slow. And the compound TACN is not as explosive as you think. Your matchbox at home is much more dangerous. 

[thefireisfun123]

Its actually not that dangerous if you keep the quantities to a couple of grams, and resist the urge to eat it :D

[RadioTrefoil]

I thought TACN was prepared by addition of ammonia to copper (ii) nitrate?

[demnlordd666]

@TheChemlife ya know uut0 might have been asking because he/she accidentally mixed it like you did. so tearing him/her down for asking about using copper(ii)nitrate might be un-called for. I mixed Cu(ii)Cl on purpose last night trying to make copper nitrate and ammonium chloride. thought I had no clue about this dangerous compound, sounds like I might have made a little bit?

[UAEchemist2]

Tetraamine Copper (II) Nitrate is considered more stable then most Primary Explosives, except for Lead Azide. All Primary explosives should be handled with sensitivity and care though.

[UAEchemist2]

You also got Tetramine Copper permanganate and Tetramine Copper chloride, They are both high explosives as well.

[iskatelikeanoob]

u just keep adding copper

LOL :P

[bas12345654321]

So you are saing this is very dangerous and you did make it by exident.

Then you flush it down the toilet and then you make it again?

First, why dump something down the toilet?

When you take a shit your toilet will explode, how are u gonna expain that to your mom?

Then you make it again and you dont have a toilet to get rid of it.

so... you are gonna ask a friend to dump it or what?

[HDRCX550VE]

Although I appreciate that you are warning the public of the sensitivity of certain explosives, I feel that you are greatly exaggerating the sensitivity of this compound. It is reasonably safe if you stick to rather small quantities when compared to something like mercury fulminate. Also, it's not a "very high explosive"; in fact, its VoD is quite low.

[TheMKhalemi]

you use your hand to scope the chemical ?

[spotlightman1234]

Ya i kind of made solid TACN before tee hee.

[nickalisse1]

@thefireisfun123 HA! HA! Good one!