Ammonium Carbonate / Hartshorn

[tombear]

Thanks to Anders I now have a pile of 50 gm bags of hartsorn/ ammonium carbonate/ hjorthorns-salt and since there is far more than I need there's 7 bags spare to go to folk who want to try it in the UK.

These are freebies although if you insist on covering the postage I won't say no!

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Tom

 

[Mr Adoby]

No problems with customs then?

/Anders

 

[tombear]

Nah, although I keep seeing the same white van parked where ever I go....

Thanks again!

Tom

 

[SimonM]

Hi Tombear,

Just a thought, but I would remove your e-mail address and ask members to PM you, otherwise the spammers will get you!

Second, and I am showing my ignorance now, what is it used for?

Simon

 

[jimford]

Ammonium carbonate (also known as 'sal volatile') was used in smelling salts by delicate Victorian ladies when they felt faint.

Perhaps some of our more sensitive bushcrafting souls feel a need for a bottle of smelling salts in the field when they feel an attack of the vapours coming on!
;^)

Jim

 

[Mr Adoby]

Swooning victorian damsels.
Weight lifters that need a quick adrenaline rush.
Knocked down boxers that need to wake up real fast.
Small bisquits and cakes that you want to be *really* crisp and fluffy.

You can put hartshorn in use for many interesting things...

 

[tombear]

It was mainly with regards to baking I was thinking of but the smelling salts bit will come in handy if corsets ever come back into fashion...

Please see the thread on baking powder (I'd do a link if I knew how) also in Lovely Grub.

Gotta go, off to a castle then a beach in North Wales and maybe get in a bit of surreptitious bush craft if the kids will let me...

ATB

Tom

 

[FGYT]

also makes a contact explosive when mixed with another ingredient was published in old Boys books as a Wheese to paint wet on to Toilet seats or intertesting fly paper when dryed etc allegedly would Smart a lot and leave a purple stain on what ever set it off


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Duncan

 

[jimford]

also makes a contact explosive when mixed with another ingredient was published in old Boys books as a Wheese to paint wet on to Toilet seats or intertesting fly paper when dryed etc allegedly would Smart a lot and leave a purple stain on what ever set it off

I think you're referring to nitrogen tri-iodide. Don't even _think_ about nitrogen tri-chloride - a hard look will set it off. The discoverer paid for the discovery with an eye and a couple of fingers!

Jim

 

[FGYT]

yep thats the stuff as i said i have the recipie in a 50's boys annual (Chums i think )

tho this stuff (offered below) is Salts of Hartshorn a powder
i think its Spirt of Hartshorn a liquid used to make the explosive.

See Wikipedia for info etc

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Duncan

 

[jimford]

i think its Spirt of Hartshorn a liquid used to make the explosive.

Ammonia solution!

Jim

 

[Globetrotter.uk]

received my pack thanks