xBangergoosEx Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) 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 Edited July 26, 2012 by xBangergoosEx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbles Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marks265 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peret Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 "Survival Man" 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xBangergoosEx Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrojig Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Maybe it makes it pissing fast powder !!! Its funny the extreme things folks will do to test folklore. I cant even imagine how it would smell after burning .... Might put a tamper on that "pyro-perfume " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Maybe it makes it pissing fast powder !!! Its funny the extreme things folks will do to test folklore. I cant even imagine how it would smell after burning .... Might put a tamper on that "pyro-perfume " Adding stale urine instead of water to rice your BP would be perfectly fine. Most of us like women though. -dag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graumann Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Nitrate content aside, there could be a added bonus from phosphor content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 There`s likely to be considerably more sodium than phosphorus in it with a modern diet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyco_1322 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peret Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 +1!! What I wouldnt do for a Guinness draft right now... Yes Peret, two days straight working on them, going in the mail Tuesday. -dag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrB Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 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 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtoivowillmann Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 This idea is really pissed. Yours truly: Toivo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sora Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wW5KR1pDxshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iJZjw8k40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sora Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 (edited) 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. Edited November 26, 2017 by sora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrB Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sora Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 (edited) Sorry my mistake, not KP but KN http://www.pbs.org/weta/roughscience/series2/scientists/mikeb/diary_4.html Edited November 27, 2017 by sora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sora Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 This is a report on how KN is harvested from soil in India. Those long crystals are sometimes referred as "Kalmi"(meaning 'pen' or 'pen-like')http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/fieldsofconflict/Report6.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdwolfe Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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