You've got a point there when it comes to explosions. I have to tell what happened when I was a teenager.

A neighbor that I went to school with in the eighth grade was into chemistry, and I don't mean the pharmaceutical type. Today he is a chemist in one of the plants on the Texas coast.

Anyway when school was out for the summer he started mixing sulphur(as I recall) and sugar and we started feeding it to a huge red ant hill that was way out in the middle of a field. He said this would make a very weak gunpowder. We put a little of this concoction on that ant hill every single day all Summer long and on Labor Day he set a black powder fuse that led to it and we ran like He!!.

We were LUCKY! That thing made a crater you could lose a small car in. We had been running as hard as we could and we were a long distance from it, but we still got showered with dirt.

It scared the heck out of me, but it was definitely a thrill.

A few years later when I tossed a grenade in Army Basic Training, I was impressed, but at the same time a little disappointed by comparison.

For a living though, I'll still take controls over chemicals.