Originally posted by Hawklore
Hmm, forgot about feed stores, thanks.
Negative, not making any explosive..
Chemistry expirement..
It involves sugar...
We didn't have potassium nitrate in stores in USSR, had to buy a 10kg Sodium Nitrate (fertiliser).
Mixed with sugar this stuff is very hygroscopic. It literally soaks so much water from the air that it becomes liquid, like sour-cream, in a matter of hours.
Sodium nitrate we used to make paper for self-made rockets. You know, hard childhood, wooden toys... My neighbour from the second floor once made a 2L jar of black powder, not grained, and accidentally burned it on his window... He even burned charcoal himself in his oven, wood wrapped in foil, it was better then activated coal in pills.