On 26/04/2011 19:46, 'Mike' wrote:
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On Apr 26, 3:28 pm, wrote:
I am unable to buy this at garden centres as elf and safety have banned
it, or so they say. However I can buy it off the net, doesn't make
sense. Is there a good source of it, I find that the postage cost on the
net are rather high?
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Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire

It is banned as it can be used to make explosives. So you can thank
our Pakistanis friends for that.
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Not sure. Stand to be corrected, but I think you will find it is the Irish
you need to thank

Not true. Their preferred explosive mixture is ANFO for which the
ingredients are still widely available in bulk agricultural quantities.

Chlorate compositions are more for amateur coloured fire pyrotechnics
and decidedly tetchy if you don't really understand what you are doing.
Potassium chlorate is preferred for pyrotechnics compositions.

If anyone is to blame for the EEC wide ban on chlorate weedkillers it is
actually the French rapporteur as described in the following missive:

http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/uploade...008_865_EC.pdf

I doubt that chlorate is really all *that* bad in the environment.
Though the tendency of stuff doused in it to conflagration is a bad side
effect. Rich tea biscuits go particularly well (and also with LOX).

Regards,
Martin Brown