Fulminate of mercury
In anticipation of the negotiations not going to plan, Walt hasn't actually given Tuco a bag of crystal meth but in fact crystals of 'fulminate of mercury' – a high explosive! He throws a crystal on the ground which detonates creating an almighty explosion.
In the episode "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" of the television series Breaking Bad, Walter White uses fulminated Mercury to blow up the office of meth kingpin Tuco Salamanca. However, the depiction of the substance and its effects in the show is questionable in terms of scientific accuracy.
Mercury(II) fulminate is prepared by dissolving mercury in nitric acid and adding ethanol to the solution.
Mercury(II) fulminate (Hg(ONC)2) is a primary explosive. It is highly sensitive to friction and shock. It is mainly used as a trigger for other explosives in percussion caps and blasting caps.
Toxicity ranges from high to moderate, depending on the form (LD50 from 6-200 mg/kg). They accumulate mainly in the kidney causing renal damage. Mercury fulminate, Hg(ONC)2, is a detonator used in explosives. It is a heavy, practically non-hygroscopic, crystalline solid.
The fulminate ion is a pseudohalic ion because its charge and reactivity are similar to those of the halogens. Due to the instability of the ion, fulminate salts are friction-sensitive explosives. The best known is mercury(II) fulminate, which has been used as a primary explosive in detonators.
In Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman (known as Captain Cook) and his former partner Emilio Koyama used chili powder as their signature formulation for methamphetamine.
In series one, episode seven, Walt and Jesse's need for methylamine necessitates the break-in of an industrial warehouse. However, a crowbar won't do the job. Instead, Walt creates thermite (again, in a kitchen) from the filings inside an Etch-A-Sketch.
Even though Walt made six of these fuel cells and attacked them to the Winnebago's battery with jumper cables, would it have been enough to spark it up? Probably not. According to ScriptPhD.com, the makeshift battery would only have churned out about 12 volts and 20-30 amps of current at the most.
The most gruesome and gory scene in the series occurs in episode two when Walt and Jesse have to disolve a dead body. A man walks out of a room with half his face blown off. A severed leg is seen in the background during this briefly.
Now starting to lose his hair from the chemo, Walt decides to shave his head. Afterward, he arranges for a meeting with Tuco. He introduces himself under the alias Heisenberg, and demands $50,000 from Tuco—$35,000 for the meth he took from Jesse, and $15,000 for beating Jesse.
Tuco was originally supposed to be around for all of Season 2 as its main antagonist, but had to be killed off early because his actor, Raymond Cruz, felt uncomfortable playing someone as violent and deranged as Tuco.
Tuco eventually descended into a life of severe drug abuse and, over time, gradually became mentally unstable whenever high on meth.
After an entire episode that began with Walt noticing a huge mass in his lungs on the scan designed to figure out the state of his cancer and led into a scene of him coughing up blood, we discover that the experimental treatment Walt used most of his drug money to pay for actually WORKED.
In the aftermath of Brock's near poisoning, Jesse is freaking out, wondering what happened to the ricin cigarette, worrying that someone else will get poisoned with it. Walt comes over to “help Jesse look.” But before arriving at Jesse's, Walt makes a dummy ricin capsule out of salt, stashes the real ricin behind the ...
Trivia. Walt's story of how thermite was used by a one-man commando to disable the Gustav Gun is made-up, as in reality the cannon was destroyed by the Germans themselves on 14 April 1945, one day before the arrival of US troops, to prevent it from falling in the hands of the Allied troops.
Thermite, a mixture of metal powder and metal oxide, is the hottest burning man-made substance in the world. It burns at temperatures of more than 2,200C, enough to burn through steel or asphalt. On human flesh, it can burn down to the bone.
During the Second World War, the Allies dropped some 30 million 4-pound thermite bombs on Germany and another 10 million on Japan. Thermite hand grenades were also used during the war to disable artillery pieces without the need for an explosive charge, very useful when silence was necessary to an operation.
Metástasis (meaning "metastasis" in Spanish) is a Colombian telenovela series, a Spanish language remake of the American crime drama Breaking Bad that transposes the events of the original from the United States to Colombia.
Phosphine gas (PH3) is a deadly gas created by a mixture of red phosphorous and moisture in the presence of heat.
It is no coincidence that Walt encompasses all nine characteristics of having a narcissistic personality disorder, as outlined in DSM-5. This shows that the more wealth he obtains, the further into narcissistic personality disorder he falls.
Both during conflicts and in peace time, some regions served as a military training ground which included firing positions and bunkers. Mercury fulminate has been used in ammunition primers and detonators. Certain amount of ammunition was dumped into the Baltic Sea after the Second World War.
Like all azides, it reacts with water to emit explosive, highly toxic hydrogen azide. Azidoazide azide has been called “the most dangerous explosive material in the world.” It is also No.
It may never be known with certainty who invented the first explosive, black powder, which is a mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal (carbon). The consensus is that it originated in China in the 10th century, but that its use there was almost exclusively in fireworks and signals.