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# Dangers of little knowledge of simple chemistry
- URL: https://becomingjj.com/dangers-of-little-knowledge-of-simple-chemistry/
- Published: 2010-08-10T23:37:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-22T01:36:57.000Z
- Author: JJ Celery
- Tags: Personal, #Import 2026-10-23 23:23

Whoever likes movies at all must have at least once seen [The Fight Club](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/).

If you are one of those people and paid enough attention you must have had noticed that there is a mention of making of nitroglycerin at home.

It's easy to make it in theory, but I have always thought that obtaining the basic elements that you need (especially nitric acid) would be rather difficult, never mind making sure that the reaction is safe - work with corrosive acids and bases is very dangerous - so I filed it under "curious" and forgot all about it.

Then I stumbled into instructions of obtaining nitric acid on You Tube.

I am seriously scared now. Knowledge, although beautiful, is a dangerous thing. Please don't blow me up, OK?