Talk:Urea nitrate

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Urea nitrate isn't produced by nitration.[edit]

Urea nitrate (H₂N-CO-NH_3⁺ . NO_3^—) is a simple salt of protonated urea. The reaction between urea and nitric acid is therefore neutralisation, or protonation. By nitration of urea, nitrourea (H₂N-CO-NH-NO₂) is formed, which is a different compound. If nobody has objections, I will change the article formulation in the following days.--84.163.109.33 (talk) 01:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UN is a lot more difficult to detonate than ANFO[edit]

LOL: Caltech - at least at one time - had a long tradition of amateur explosive enthusiasm.

One such enthusiast used to blow two-inch holes through the engine block of an abandoned truck he found in the Mojave Desert. He used the inwardly-curved bottoms of champagne bottles as shaped charges, with the bottles themselves being filled with Ammonium Nitrate fitted with blasting caps that were prepared in their Student House rooms.

However, also in his room he made some Urea Nitrate but was able to detonate only a very small portion of it with one of those same dorm room blasting caps.

Being more of an armchair enthusiast myself, not much contemplation was required for me to come up with ways to achieve reliable detonation, but I'll leave those actual ways as exercises for the Gentle Homeland Security Agent. Have A Nice Day! 70.102.74.164 (talk) 12:19, 28 February 2019 (UTC) User_Talk:MichaelCrawford[reply]