Talk:Armstrong's mixture
Latest comment: 17 days ago by A Shortfall Of Gravitas in topic Other sources
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Matches
editSome reference to its use in safty matches is needed here. --EVCM (talk) 16:38, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
- No it isn't, because it isn't used in matches. --A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 21:52, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Naming
editWhy is it called Armstrong's mixture. Is it anything to do with William_George_Armstrong,_1st_Baron_Armstrong?--Frumpo (talk) 16:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Other sources
editChemistry of Powder and Explosives, page 105
Explosive Limit of Armstrong’s Mixture (see references)
Improvised Primary Explosives, 1998 by Dirk Goldmann --Anon423 (talk) 00:45, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- Someone added the first two. The third is anarchist's cookbook levels of stupid and presents almost everything in ways that will kill whoever attempts them if they could even work at all which many wouldn't. Sure, I'll get right on top of gassing off an acetylene tank into a saturated mixture of chlorate and nitrate. I'm sure that'll end well. I'm glad to know hydrazine is toxic. Good thing it's not explosive in air and it doesn't cause immediate severe burns and probably death from the amount absorbed at those concentrations if you spill it on yourself. Or just fail to wear a SCUBA suit and respirator and I'm sure enough will get through your skin. Anyway there's no good info about armstrong's in there that isn't in another source and the title just serves to make people confuse armstrong's with primary explosives (even though it's in a different section of the book specifically because it isn't one). I already fixed the lede referring to it as a primary explosive. --A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 21:52, 28 October 2024 (UTC)