carbonhalo Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Straight hexamine is quite expensive here, but camping stores sell cheap hexamine fuel tablets. These contain trioxane. I have no idea how this will affect performance of comps using hexamine.Does anyone use crushed stove tablets as a hexamine substitute? Edit: Just found a cheap local source of hexamine powder, but the question still stands. Edited January 29, 2015 by carbonhalo
Mumbles Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Hate to burst your bubble, but hexamine and trioxane are two different chemicals entirely. They are both used in fuel tablets though. If you do find hexamine fuel tablets (instead of trioxane), they're just hexamine with a little wax in them. You can dissolve them in water, filter off the wax, and evaporate the water to recover the pure hexamine.
FlaMtnBkr Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Out of curiosity where did you find a cheap local source of hexamine? Is it used for something common? Or just the local neighborhood hexamine factory?
carbonhalo Posted January 29, 2015 Author Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Wikipedia lists hexamine fuel tablets as ALSO containing trioxane. "Trioxane is combined with hexamine and compressed into solid bars to make hexamine fuel tablets, used by the military and outdoorsmen as a cooking fuel." and the local (Australian) source of straight hexamine is Auschems, who provide a lot of pyro chems. Edited January 29, 2015 by carbonhalo
max6333 Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Where I live those tablets are mostly pure hexamine,with a little wax like Mumbles said
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