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How accurate is this show?

>> No.4184154

4/10

>> No.4184153

No chemistry fags here?

>> No.4184159

>>4184150
most of the shit they talk about in terms of reactions is OK -- but a lot of the real world effects are certainly over represented.

Whatever mercury salt he had in that bag certainly wouldn't have blown out the floor of that building.

>> No.4184161

Accurate in what sense?
The chemistry is pretty close, but they obviously dazzled over it to make it more interesting to the average person (omg my meth is blue!)

>> No.4184162

>>4184159

No recreating that then, damnit

>> No.4184166

>>4184161

Yeah in terms of chemistry, wanted to know if it was accurate and it seems that way

>> No.4184173

lol Op wanted to make bombs out of mercury and sell meth

You'll fail and die at both.

>> No.4184175

as accurate as House or CSI is.

>> No.4184176

>>4184173

I'll die twice?
AWESOME

>> No.4184188

>>4184159
Mercury fulminate? It's powerful but that scene was way overboard. The whole bag would have produced the explosion that they showed the little rock make

>> No.4184195

About this accurate.

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4184563

In terms of how much of a shithole Albuquerque, NM is, it's accurate. I would know, I was born and currently live in this terrible city.

Thankfully, I'll be moving to Portland, OR soon...

>> No.4184567

Will home made pseudo really make blue meth?

>> No.4184569

>>4184563
>Tuco
>Shows Tortuga instead
Did they even watch the show

>> No.4184575

The thermite he makes is fairly realistic.

>> No.4184577

>>4184575
Anyone can make thermite and even then they exaggerated

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4184584

>>4184569

He's doing an overdose move which for Tuco is Turtle bomb (Likewise for Walt it's 737).

>> No.4184588

WHat about dissolving bodies in hydrofluoric acid?

>> No.4184589

The mechanism for methyl amphetamine synthesis is not that difficult. There are a few ways to do it though, and I believe they show only two in the show, the first being the reduction of pseudoephedrine, which is an analgesic medication, with iodic acid and red phosphorous catalyst.

>> No.4184593

>>4184567

The blue meth is the result of using phenyl-2-propanone