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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was seven.

My dad didn't give me a paintbrush so I made one by taping a chunk of styrofoam to a stick so I could paint my wooden airplane. It was oil based paint.

When my war vet father saw the styrofoam dissolving, he grabbed the can away from me, remembered the cigarette in his mouth, then shoved it back and made me put the lid on first.

And that was when I learned how to make nitro glycerine.

[–] bebabalula@feddit.dk 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You didn’t make nitroglycerin. Maybe you could classify it it as a form of napalm though

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

NAPALM that was it, my mistake. I'll edit my post.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit, all it takes to make napalm is a cigarette and some oil paint ??! brb

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago

Don't forget the styrofoam!