Acetontricykloperoxid/Acetone Peroxide/AP/ATCP

"a dear child has many names" as the Swedish proverb says.

3,3,6,6,9,9-hexamethyl-1,2,4,5,7,8-hexoxonane.

Balance:
~~~~~~~ H+
3 C3H6O(l) + 3 H2O2(l) ==> 1 C9H18O6(s) + 3 H2O(l).

Reaction:
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C3H6O = 58.0800g/mol(75.1cm^3), 6.02*10^23 molecules.
+
H2O2 = 34.0147g/mol(23.5cm^3), 6.02*10^23 molecules.

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H2O = 18.0153g/mol,18.0cm^3,6.02*10^23 molecules.

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222.238 221.1 6.02*10^23
C9H18O6 = -------g/mol, -----cm^3, ---------- molecules.
3 3 3

Summary:
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100% Acetone, 75.1ml(58g)
100% hydrogen peroxide, 23.5ml(34g)
will produce 74,08gram of crystals plus 18ml(18gram) water.

Example:
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if you have 30.0% H2O2 you need 78,3ml and 75.1ml acetone.
if you have 19.5% H2O2 you need 120.5ml and 75.1ml acetone.
if you have 06.0% H2O2 you need 391,7ml and 75.1ml acetone.

And so on... pretty obvious but I've read about people adding
10 ml 6% H2O2 when it says you shall add 10 ml 30% H2O2.
And people using far to much acetone, disolving the finished ATCP
leading to a large loss of the yield who will be flushed through the filter
taking the shortest path down the drain with the catalyst and H2O.

Information:
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I assume that the reader of this document has some common lab skills
and I will not go through the process of making it since that has been
repeated over and over and why reinvent the wheel? but..

I'm going to point out the fact you need to keep mixture cold, low ph
is required to speed up the reaction, clean the crystals carefully
to keep acid vapors away and be careful with the finished product
since it has an urge to detonate if to much heat/pressure/friction is added.
Pure crystals can be melted in boiling water since its
melting temp is around 97�C. Assuming your water boils at > temp then 97�C.

It's said that ATCP can not boil since the boiling temp is close or same as
the flame temp, where the ATCP catches deflages/detonates. This is not true.
You can heat the liquid ATCP until it starts to boil w/o detonation/fire.
If you get an explosion when doing this it is caused by fumes produced when
C9H18O6 change from liquid to gas and free molecules gets ignited by fire or
heat source with much higher temp then ATCP flame temp. An alternate cause
is impurities, improperly washed ATCP crystals have different properties
which might cause the ATCP to detonate. There is no such thing as bad luck,
everything can be calculated and measured and if your ATCP explode it is
not cause you had a bad day.

If you choose to store ATCP crystals in a solvent such as acetone the power
of the explosive will decrease graduately since the trimers will break up
into less powerful dimers.

If you want to know more, read the documents by "Swedish Infomania" and don't
forget to double check any formulas found on the internet some of the recipes
in cyberspace are made by people adding "one hand full of this and half a
hand full of that" and then when they are done they give out improper balanced
formulas that are not stable, and might behave differently then what is expected.

I find these crystals very comfortable to handle and have a bit past
10 years experience with explosives and army did not exhaust my interest in
dealing with compressed power. :) ATCP is not the explosive of choice when
making large devices but is useful in blasting caps and such.

How instable/dangerous is ATCP?

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ATCP produces 84% the crater volume of TNT.

Detonation velocity: 340-6300m/s depending on the density of the ATCP
and if there is still water in the detcap. If there is to much water
and/or to low density there will be a slow deflagration and no detonation.

If ATCP has to much water in it there will be no detonation.

* Molding crystals to a powder gently with a spoon won't cause a detonation.

* Molding ATCP crystals hard in a mortar will cause a detonation.

* ATCP between 2 metal objects forced together will cause a detonation.

* Dropping a metal key into a plate with ATCP powder might cause a
detonation if sufficient energy is transmitted into the ATCP.

*Sparks from a lighter might cause detonation though not always.

*Open flame will cause detonation.

*A thin layer of ATCP dust won't explode, but will burn very fast w/o
transmitting much heat into any nearby objects. This can be tested by
adding a very thin layer of atcp dust on your fingers, and set it on
fire with a lighter.
-I recommend you explore this as much as possible in very small dozes
as you will learn about its properties and possibilities rather then just
being afraid of it. 1 gram is not a small doze, a small doze is > 0.09 gram.

-Obitus. "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
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