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Apart from // set off with a very specific frequency acoustic transducer //, there is absolutely no way whatsoever that this idea can be improved, and it must be implemented IMMEDIATELY. |
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If you were to swallow some of it, that would
improve everyone's enjoyment of the product.
Raking the resulting mess into the soil would be my
pleasure. |
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Isn't this anhydrous ammonia? |
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No, but there is a range of ammonia-derived nitrogen compounds that could be used. Nitrogen trichloride; silver nitride; ammonium perchlorate; hydrazine derivatives. Most of them are highly sensetive to shock, heat or friction, falling into the 1.1A class (primary explosives) and very suitable* for intitating supersonic detonation in low-sensetivity secondary compositions. |
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*Providing that you're not overly fussy about when and where the detonation occurs. |
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Outstanding. Maybe a refinement of the idea would be to
incorporate the explosive of choice into granules. If they
were stabilized by a water-soluble coating, they could be
ploughed in when dry and then activated with a quick
watering*. |
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*or left, and used as a rain-alarm. |
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Granule size will be a critical factor in the design. Activation by environmental factors such as moisture will be better than shock or friction, but getting the material into the soil will still be problematic. |
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Rather than ploughing or a seed-drill, we suggest dispensing long, thin aerodynamically-shaped units with fin stabilization, manufactured with biodegradeable materials, from high altitude. |
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Starting point for design <link>. |
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I remember reading, somewhere on the internet, that as the
American plain was being fenced off and farmed, explosives
were advertised as suitable for preparing the ground.
Not just clearing tree-stumps, either - loosening the ground
for tilling.
IIRC it was claimed that it also increased yield. |
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// explosives were advertised as suitable for preparing the ground. // |
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Presumably that's a euphemism for "resettling" the Native American population who were already living there. Huge, lethal explosions can definitely be used to encourage migration, although sometimes said migration is in the form of disarticulated body parts. |
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// loosening the ground for tilling // |
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Black powder will do that, particularly black powder made with Chile Saltpetre (Sodium nitrate) instead of regular Saltpetre (potassium nitrate). |
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However, sodium nitrate is highly hygroscopic, so very careful packaging and storage is needed to prevent rapid deterioration and indeed deactivation. |
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Black powder residue after firing is about 70% solids, most of which are nitrite salts, with some ash. It would indeed be a good fertilizer, and as a method of breaking up hard ground would probably be acceptably effective. Numerous shotholes would be needed as the low brisance of BP limits the extent of the disruption. |
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