COPPER ACETYLIDE EXPLOSIVE (synthesis)

cuprous acetylide, a dark red powder, is a heat and shock sensitive high explosive much like silver acetylide except less sensitive. It is created here by passing acetyline gas through a copper chloride solution in the Presence of ammonia.

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[spotlightman1234]

I'm confused. Is cuprous acetylide more or less sensitive than silver acetylide? please answer!?

[Basco36]

@spotlightman1234 cuprous acetylide is less sensitive than silver

[cobrasniper555]

I'm sorry, but I hate it when people test deflagration on a good watch glass. It hurts my soul. Haha. I went through a great deal of trouble getting my home lab put together and can't understand why people ruin some of their equipment. I personally use the bottom of soda cans to test detonation/deflagration. Anyhow, good synth! Keep it up!

[wattapassa]

how come you need ammonia?

[SaboeMC]

Actually its copper I chloride not copper II chloride...

Copper II chloride does not woork for this reaction

[demnlordd666]

nice I didnt know it was that simple. I have no use for it but that is coo. woulda been nice to see a slow mo

[mmohq]

I just created this with chemicals I found around my house... Given that I happened to have some Copper and Hydrocloric acid lying around to make the Copper(I) Choride.. Gotta love Wikipedia, lol xD

[334683171014]

@TenAmperes there's plenty of places to order 70% nitric acid, dudadiesel, elemental scientific, united nuclear, terrace packaging (is the cheapest), refining chemicals inc, then of course you can make it. You just have to look around, overall it would be cheaper i think to get the 70% then if you need 95-100 you can dehidrate it in the distillation apparatus.

[TenAmperes]

I can't make CuCl and can't order it either. I can't order nitric acid, but I can make nitric acid. So I can only make expensive silver acetylide.

[RC4209]

@Basco36 Did you use dihydrate? I assume it from coloring of compound.

[spotlightman1234]

@spotlightman1234 thank you, it's just that for some reason on the wikipedia page it said that it was more sensitive so I wasn't sure.

[spotlightman1234]

ATTENTION: in this video He uses coper (I) chloride (Cu2Cl2). It appears that he is using coper (II) chloride but that is only because his Cu2Cl2 is very old and partially oxidized. copper (II) chloride cannot be used for this synthesis