Chemicals
Acetone: Can be purchased at the hardware store. It's a solvent. Acetone is the simplest ketone, and can be used where ketones are needed.
93% Ethyl alcohol: This was purchased at the pharmacy section of a supermarket. It has a variety of uses. This is not to be taken internally. It contains methanol - and you don't want to drink that.
Isopropanol: This is your standard rubbing alcohol. Shown here are 70% and 99% concentrations. You don't want to drink this either. Get this from any pharmacy or drug mart.
Hydrogen Peroxide: Shown here are 3% and 6% concentrations. When I get some more 35% I'll put up a picture of that too. The 3% and 6% can be purchased from any pharmacy or drug mart. My supply of 30% is a hydroponics store.
Sulfuric Acid: This can be purchased at a hardware store. It is sold as drain opener, and comes in a plastic bag. This is >90% concentrated sulfuric acid.
Hydrochloric Acid: Muriatic Acid is just another name for HCl. This can be purchased from a pool supplier or from a hardware store. This particular one is 31.45% concentrated.
Acetic Acid: Regular household vinegar is a 5% acetic acid solution. You can use it to make glacial acetic acid, but there's a bit of work involved. Or you can just pour some on your salad or fries.
Citric Acid: This is citric acid, aka sour salt, an organic carboxylic acid. Being a weak acid, it is an acid of choice to be used in making HMTD.
Sodium Hypochlorite Bleach: This is household bleach. Contains ~5% NaOCl. It varies between brands. You can also purchase it in 12% concentrations as pool chlorine. Can be used for a variety of things including chlorate production.
Silver: That's 2 kilos of pure silver. Now using bars might be a bit impractical in pyrotechnics, but that's my favorite picture of what I have. I also have dimes and quarters and those are a bit more practical. They can be used wherever silver is required - obviously. I'll leave it up to you to figure out where to get it.
Hexamine: Hexamine solid fuel heating tablets. They're pretty cheap actually. That's 24 tablets for $2.65 Canadian. I bought these at a camping store. Hexamine can be used for a variety of things including HMTD, HDN, and RDX. The tablets smell like fish to me. Oh well.
Iodine: This can be extracted from iodine solution. It really looks more purple, but the color didn't come out clear in the picture. And it stains everything. So be careful what you choose to store it in. And yes, this is the stuff used to make NI3. But don't.
Potassium Chlorate: This is one of my favorite oxidizers. I used to use it a lot, but it isn't the safest thing to use. It can be made by reacting NaClO3 (in some weedkillers) with KCl. I have never seen that type of weedkiller sold where I live, so I've yet to do that. There's also thermal decomposition of hypochlorites, but the yields are horrible. And good luck making a chorate cell. This bottle was a present from a friend.
Potassium Permanganate One of my less liked oxidizers. It can make a powerful flash powder with Mg, but I still don't like it. Apparently it can be purchased for water purification or something. This was also from a friend.
Potassium Nitrite You can produce it by heating KNO3 with lead to form KNO2 and PbO. You can use it for a few different things. From the same friend.
Potassium Nitrate: I assume most people know what this is. It can be purchased as fertlizer, stump remover, or from a pharmacy. This particular bottle was from a pharmacy. I just said it was for my model rockets and the pharmacist had no problem.
Lead: Here we have lead. It's sold as air rifle ammunition (pellets). The only reason I bought this was for use in my air rifle. But it can be used for a few things that require lead in the synthesis. You can also use it along with a nitrate for nitrite production. Buy it wherever air rifles and accessories are sold.
Magnesium: There's magnesium powder in the bottle and that's ribbon beside it. My chem teacher one year gave me a nice bit of ribbon when I asked. The ribbon in the picture has been sitting for quite a while and has a nice layer of MgO on it. The two small pieces look a lot more silvery, but it's hard to see in the pic. You can buy solid block magnesium firestarters from camping stores or bigger bulk pieces from suppliers. Just scrape it down and you have powder. You can use use magensium for a variety of things including lighting thermite.
Naphthalene: This was purchased at a local drug mart. It's 99% pure naphthalene. It is used of course to get rid of moths and naturally it has that smell to it. You can use this to make nap charges which look quite nice when done right.
Sodium: Oooooh yes, the fabled sodium. And no it's not really that great unless you are planning on chucking some quite large pieces into water. It reacts with water to form H2 and NaOH. Sometimes the heat of reaction is enough to ignite the H2, as when larger pieces are used. But it's really not all that great. It's stored here under paraffin oil.
Ammonium Chloride: It has a few uses but not very many. You can use it to produce NH3 if you like.
Sulfur: What to say about sulfur. Well it's used in black powder among other things. I like mixing it with zinc powder for a nice little flash powder. This was purchased from the pharmacy section of a supermarket. Apparently you can use it as a laxative or to clean your face. Go figure.
