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One 8-gram co2 cylinder, the bottom third filled with sand, the middle filled with black powder from a 4th of July Roman Candle, the top third filled with sand and an appropriate fuse going down into the middle of the powder makes a nifty grenade. Crimp the top of the cylinder when full.
You can also put it on a lathe first and score circles, then when scored lengthwise, if resembles a banana-shaped pineapple.
So Tour decided to do a little test. He filled out an order form for all the chemicals needed to make sarin… and two of its relatives, soman and GF. His secretary then placed the order with Sigma-Aldrich, one of the nation’s most reputable chemical suppliers…
…Tour got a big box the next day by overnight mail. By following one of the well-known recipes for sarin — mixing dimethyl methylphosphonate, phosphorus trichloride, sodium fluoride and alcohol in the right amounts and sequence — he could have made 280 grams of the stuff or a comparable amount of soman or GF. (That’s more than 100 teaspoonfuls.) All this for $130.20 plus shipping and handling – Enough fluoride-based sarin nerve agent to kill 10,000 people