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xBangergoosEx

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Im no expert, but i cant understand why in hell someone would put "stale urine" in black powder.

 

Despite the numerous safety violations in this video, i am really confused as to what the urine's purpose is.

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=uwb2HQOIOUI

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It might be superstition. I've heard/read this before. I really don't know what the purpose of it would be. I've heard people say that it adds extra nitrates, or other oxidizing species. It doesn't seem like anything that couldn't be fixed by just slightly adjusting the ratios.
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Usually urine should convert to a nitrate when breaking down. First it is urine or waste, next ammonia is formed, then a form of nitrate. This could be why???? When I was in the fish hobby this "cycle" was talked about a lot for fish waste in an aquarium. Either way I can do without!
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"Survival Man" :whistle:

 

Two hundred or more years ago, urine-soaked earth would develop potassium nitrate over time and was collected by the "saltpeter men", hated government contractors who would dig up your stable floor or even the floor of your house whether you agreed or not and then steal your cart to take it away. I can only imagine the writer of the survivalist book he was following was confused about the chemistry. Still, remember this guy's face, because after the apocalypse he might have a stash of food, and you won't have to worry about him shooting you with his musket.

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Still, remember this guy's face, because after the apocalypse he might have a stash of food, and you won't have to worry about him shooting you with his musket.

 

hahahahaha im dying :lol::lol:

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Maybe it makes it pissing fast powder tongue2.gif!!!

Its funny the extreme things folks will do to test folklore.

I cant even imagine how it would smell after burning ....2blink.gif Might put a tamper on that "pyro-perfume "2ohmy.gif

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Maybe it makes it pissing fast powder tongue2.gif!!!

Its funny the extreme things folks will do to test folklore.

I cant even imagine how it would smell after burning ....2blink.gif Might put a tamper on that "pyro-perfume "2ohmy.gif

 

Adding stale urine instead of water to rice your BP would be perfectly fine. Most of us like women though. laugh2.gif

 

-dag

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You gotta know the Goex plant has all there workers pissing in a big tank 3 times a day while at work to keep up with demand ;)
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You gotta know the Goex plant has all there workers pissing in a big tank 3 times a day while at work to keep up with demand ;)

 

I think you're getting confused with the Budweiser plant. :lol:

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+1!!

 

What I wouldnt do for a Guinness draft right now... Yes Peret, two days straight working on them, going in the mail Tuesday. 2ohmy.gif

 

-dag

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Ok, so, first of. Blame Mumbles, pretty sure i clicked the link to here only due to him posting it...

 

You gotta know the Goex plant has all there workers pissing in a big tank 3 times a day while at work to keep up with demand wink2.gif

 

Only vaguely related to this, in that there is pissing about, so to speak, but... Unless they changed something, Universeium in Gothenburg siphons of waste water from the public restrooms, for use as nutrition for green water production which is then feed in to the salt-water tanks, feeding shrimp, corals, and others...

Really not much more to do with the topic then just the pissing about. Sorry.

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I've read somewhere that KP was extracted in earlier days from manure heaps. To increase the potassium, wood ashes rich in potassium used to get added in the manure.

If I correctly remember one episode of "Rough Science" featured making BP from manures.

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KP?

KNO3 was traditionally leached from soils in stables, and i suppose it could possibly be harvested from manure heaps as well. As long as those are kept wet, to let the bacteria do their thing.

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I'm new here, so I don't give a crap if you are patient with me or not, lol.

 

Anyway, didn't they have wagons with open topped barrels that went around at the beginning of the ACW, went around every morning collecting the contents of chamber pots to make nitrates for the manufacture of BP?

 

Can you imagine driving one of those wagons?

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