How do you make Nitrate Powder?

[Korvan]

Nitroglycerine is made by ROMOTE CONTROLE. In BUNKERS.In carefuly controled proportions.With the temperature and humidity strictly controled. Let's not for get static electric sparks, the bane of ALL munition manufacture. (Google search Nevada fireworks factory explosion)
Just pouring nitric acid and glycerine together will get you on the 5:00 news.

Combining just nitric acid and glycerine together won't do much as the reaction produces so much water that the whole process dilutes itself almost immediately.

Now, add some concentrated sulphuric acid to take up the excess water, and you got yerself a self-sustaining reaction. I believe that it is also quite an exothermic reaction, so active cooling is needed to prevent premature detonation.

Not something anyone who isn't qualified should be making.

I totally agree with not setting off smoke bombs indoors. Not just because of the toxic smoke but because yer mom will kick yer arse for stinking up the house.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

This fall, my new appartment number is C4

Ugh, you'll be disturbing your neighbors all year round with the endless
mantrains you'll be running with Stork Fucker and your TK pals

ROTFLMMFGDQQAO!!!

Funny I do that all the time with my boyfriend (soon to be boyfriendS), yet my neighbors don't complain.

mmmmm mantrain....

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Ok, so now you got your Saltpeter. Here's what you do with it.

If you can't get a regular smoke-bomb device, a smoke grenade, or
something real from the military, make your own. According to Doctor Abraham
Hoffman, the noted chemist, you combine four parts sugar to six-parts saltpeter
(potassium nitrate). You heat this mixture over a very low flame until it
starts to blend into a plastic substance. When it begins to gel, remove it
from the heat and allow it to cool. He suggests you stick a few wooden match
heads into the mass while it's still pliable. You also add a fuse at this
point. The smoke device is nonexplosive and nonflammable. But a pound of this
mixture will produce enough thick smoke to cover a city block. Watch which way
the wind blows.