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Can Sodium Chloride Blow Up, or is it Flamable witha combination of salt peter and sugar?

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Can Sodium Chloride Blow Up, or is it Flamable witha combination of salt peter and sugar?

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Sodium chloride is common table salt. No explosive capability at all. In your “recipe”, you have sugar as your fuel, potassium nitrate as your oxidizer, and the dye is for colored smoke. Adding salt to all that would do nothing except perhaps give you a slightly orange-yellow colored flame.