Stink bombs

Non-medicinal Preparations. These include a variety of preparations such as sweetener tablets, fertiliser tablets, stink bombs, indoor fireworks, and slug pellets. 

To those readers who ve built Oan Moore s "Super Bazooka"on page 53 and have spent the past few months free time by blasting away at trees and fenceposts In sessions of secret target practice, the question has probably arisen as to what to do with all those empty rocket engines Fervent Survival-ists needn t discard them as useless because 1 have Just the Information you need to turn those little tubes into some of the best smoke n stink bombs available. 

Colourless gas rotten-egg smell . Lethal within minutes at 0.1-0.2% in air. Stink bombs beloved of school boys H2S dissolved in water, banned in the UK in 1981. Irritant and lachrymator. Early hyperpnoea due to direct effect on carotid body as per cyanide. Sulphmethaemoglobin formed. 

Ill) A smell of a stink bomb released in a corner of a room soon spreads to the rest of the room. 

The following substances are not allowed for use in jokes and hoaxes or in objects intended to be used as such, for instance as a constituent of sneezing powder and stink bombs, with the exception that Member States may tolerate on their territory stink bombs containing not more than 1.5 mb ... 

Examples metallic glitter intended mainly for decorations, artificial snow and frost, whoopee cushions, silly string, aerosols, imitation excrement, horns for parties, decorative flakes and foams, artificial cobwebs, stink bombs). 

Military appreciation of chemical weapons varied considerably. In September 1914, Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dundonald apprised Lord Kitchener of the various plans left by his grandfather. Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, for the use of sulphur dioxide clouds to drive an enemy from a fortified position. Kitchener at once discounted them as did Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson. Only Winston Churchill s imaginative interest kept the scheme alive, and eventually a modified version of Cochrane s proposal was put into practice, not as lethal gas clouds but as naval smoke screens. Even when line officers returned from France and inquired about the possibility of using stink bombs to dear enemy dug-outs, the response was unfavourable. Some lachrymatory substances were examined at the Imperial College of Sdence, and, unoffidally, stink bombs were offered to Sir John French in case the enemy resorted to similar methods. The Commander-in-Chief brusquely rejected the offer. ... 

If something smells bad, it probably has sulfur in it. Stink bombs are usually made from sulfur chemicals. Some tropical flowers have a rotting smell... 

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