How to make the Smelliest stink-Bomb of ALL!

 

Iron-sulfide stink solution is sold in joke shops (it is not sold at the florist's...). For about $1.00 a quart you can make your own stink bomb with little problem. The active ingredient is ammonium sulfide which stinks to high heaven like rotten eggs especially if it is spilled on the floor or vaporized by an explosion or sprayer.

To make some ammonium sulfide, 114g of sulfur are mixed with 228g of hydrated lime (=chaux) in a big pressure cooker. About one litre of water is added and the mess is heated and stirred until the sulfur has completely blended*. The hydrated lime will sink to the bottom of the pan and yellow liquid is then poured off into a bucket.

The bucket must be taken outside, if you have any sense (but do you?), and one pound of sulfate of ammonia is added. It is stirred a minute (hold your nose). Then the bucket is covered with plastic wrap and is let to set for about a half hour. Then the liquid is poured off slowly through a filter into a bottle. If you don't have an outside you can use your bathroom. Just hope no one has to go for an hour or so. The liquid is vile but it is not poisonous.

Sulfur may be obtained from rose dust (an insecticide) which is very high grade and makes excellent gunpowder (but this is another recipe). Rose dust has 10% inert ingredients so 10% more should be added to any formula requiring sulfur. Rose dust and sulfate of ammonia (a fertilizer) may be purchased in the garden department of a home improvement/hardware store. Hydrated lime is obtained in the building supply department where cement is sold. The total cost of the ingredients is less than ten dollars.

Stinkum is either poured on the floor, shot from a water pistol, thrown in a bottle (or light bulb) or vaporized by a firecracker in a plastic bottle in a crowded room or public place (strictly outside the university premises of course)...

Adapted from Kurt Saxon's The Poor man's James Bond