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  • Smoke bomb or gun powder? Which are you trying to make?
  • smoke bomb
  • if your looking for potassium or sodium nitrate your best bet is e~Bay. but there are a few other chemical sites out there too which you could use. just have a nose round. but if you don't like the idea of buying chemicals online or just think its quicker to get it from a garden center here are some tips. go down to the fertilizer and weedkiller section. 1) try not to get anything thats a liquid only go for powders. if its in a liquid you might as well for get it. if there any nitrate in there it will be so dilute its not worth it. the time a energy you will wast boiling away the water to get a few grams of impure powder is... well just don't. 2) look for white powders. KNO3 and NaNO3 are white so if there's any colour its probably something you don't want in there. people are now adding flame retardants to the fertilizers to stop us from doing stuff like this. 3) this is probably the best tip i know. look for the oxidizing symbol( looks like the flammable symbol only with the fire coming off a round ball). even if its not KNO3 it will work if you just making smoke bombs and may work if your making gunpowder. i use to make a hybrid of a smoke bomb with sodium chlorate. sodium chlorate is a kind of weed killer and garden centers are normally very good and sell it pure (ish). so its quite easy to find. but NaClO3 is a better oxidizing agent then KNO3 so making the smoke bomb is a little different. first you measure equal volumes of sugar and sodium chlorate. if you can use icing sugar then do, its better for this. grind the each separately till they are both like flower. then mix together, add a fuse and light! there is a lot of white smoke and a large orange/yellow flame. also i think you can get KNO3 from the chemists as a food additive, but i am not shore. always happy to help out a fellow pyrotechnics well i hope this was helpful and happy hunting.
  • you can get it from aquarium stores
  • Found a good pure powder dealer http://www.gardendirect.co.uk/potassium-nitrate-p-210 Great for smoke bombs Cheap and has varient amounts available. Hope this helped...
  • You can get Salt from any grocery store. And stop calling me Peter like that! Using my name so much in one sentence is freakin me out!

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