LIST OF USEFUL HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS AND THEIR AVAILABILITY Anyone can get many chemicals from hardware stores,

supermarkets, and drug stores to get the materials to make explosives or other dangerous compounds. A would-be terrorist would merely need a station wagon and some money to acquire many of the chemicals named here. Chemical ________ alcohol, ethyl * ammonia + ammonium nitrate nitrous oxide Used In _______ alcoholic beverages solvents (95% min. for both) CLEAR household ammonia instant-cold paks, fertilizers pressurizing whip cream poppers (like CO2 ctgs.) firestarters vitamins cooking, laxative mercury thermometers uncharged car batteries Available at ____________ liquor stores hardware stores supermarkets/7-eleven drug stores, medical supply stores party supply stores Head shops (The Alley at Belmont/Clark, Chgo) surplus/camping stores pharmacies/drug stores supermarket/drug stores supermarkets, hardware stores automotive stores pharmacies/drug stores gardening charcoal grills fertilizer first aid road flares kerosene stoves propane stoves gardening/hardware store supermarkets gardening stores gardening store drug medical supply stores surplus/auto stores, surplus/camping stores, surplus/camping stores, purification plants surplus/camping stores printing shops photography stores

magnesium lecithin mineral oil mercury sulfuric acid glycerine sulfur charcoal sodium nitrate cellulose (cotton) strontium nitrate fuel oil bottled gas

potassium permanganate water purification hexamine or methenamine nitric acid ^ hexamine stoves (camping) cleaning printing plates

Iodine sodium perchlorate

disinfectant (tinture) solidox pellets (VERY impure)

Pharmacy, OSCO hardware stores for cutting torches

^ Nitric acid is very difficult to find nowadays. It is usually stolen by bomb makers, or made by the process described in a later section. A desired concentration for making explosives about 70%. & The iodine sold in drug stores is usually not the pure crystaline form that is desired for producing ammonium triiodide crystals. To obtain the pure form, it must usually be acquired by a doctor's prescription, but this can be expensive. Once again, theft is the means that terrorists result to. -= Exodus ='94