Mercurul rosu este un exploziv de inalt randament care nu explodeaza in mod obisnuit si apartine laboratoarelor din Los Alamos. Este folosit ca materia de detonatie pentru o “mini bomba cu neutroni” de marimea unei mingi de baseball. Minibomba foloseste un amestec in parti egale de deuteriu ( hidrogen greu ) si tritiu ( izotop greu, radioactiv al hidrogenului ), ai carui nuclei se contopesc in anumite conditii de comprimare si incalzire. Bomba in chestiune este “curata” prin absenta totala a radioactivitatii in reactiile de fuziune, caci produsele ei sunt neutronii. Mercurul rosu da mai multa energie pe kilogram decât explozivele conventionale, dar nu explodeaza de modul conventional ( cu fum si unda expansiva ), ci detonând atinge o temperatura atât de inalta ca provoaca o presiune capabila sa “aprinda” hidrogenul greu, producând atunci fuziune pura.
La origine, mercurul rosu – a carei formula chimica este Hg2Sb2O7 – este un oxid de mercur cu antimoniu. Astazi mercurul rosu se fabrica in Rusia amestecând material nuclear special in cantitati foarte mici cu mercur rosu normal, care apoi se bombardeaza cu un fascicul de particule rapide. Noua substanta, in care mercurul si antimoniul se comporta ca un unic atom, este foarte comprimata si pregatita pentru a se transforma in detonator pentru explozia de fuziune. Pagubele cauzate prin explozie vor fi minime inauntrul unei cladirii. Fara indoiala insa masacrul uman ar fi catastrofal…ploaia neutronica ar reactiona cu anumite elemente din mediu, sol, cladiri, ca sodiul si fierul, si prin absorbirea neutronilor s-ar converti in substante radioactive.
Toretic puterea de distrugere a unei Minibombe cu Neutroni este de doua megatone si unda expansiva a exploziei aeriene a acestui dispozitiv combinata cu propriul reflex de la pamânt ar distruge tot ce ar intâlni pe o raza intre 13-21 km. din punctul zero.
Pretul pentru un kilogram de mercur rosu poate ajunge la peste 500 de mii de $ .
In mod oficial nu exista nici o confirmare reala despre existenta fizica a acestui tip de mercur sau de fabricarea lui insa am observat ca totusi ar exista o posibilitate pentru verificarea existentei acestei substante. Si nu numai asta dar conform unor stiri recente se pare ca Romania detine importante cantitati de mercur rosu despre care nu se mai stie nimic. Unde au ajuns, cine le’a preluat , care au fost rezultatele testelor, unde este acum acel mercur rosu … etc. De unde stiu asta ? De aici: Mercur Rosu in Valoare de 1 Milion de Euro scos la vanzare in Orastie

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What is red mercury?

David Adam
Thursday September 30, 2004
The Guardian

The only thing we can be sure of is that it’s a ripping yarn. Rumours that Soviet nuclear experts had produced a mysterious explosive material with unimaginable destructive power first circulated in the 1970s, and despite several official investigations and subsequent denials the story refuses to die. The near-mythical compound cropped up again on Sunday, when the News of the World claimed it had foiled a terrorist plot to buy red mercury as material for a dirty bomb. Depending on who you believe, red mercury is either an elaborate hoax, a codename for nuclear material smuggled through the former iron curtain, or a terrifying new trigger for a handheld hydrogen bomb. What it isn’t, according to the speculation and hearsay that makes up the scientific literature on the subject, is any use for a dirty bomb (one that scatters radioactive material).

“Nobody would dream of getting that stuff for a dirty bomb,” says Frank Barnaby, a nuclear physicist who worked at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in the 1950s. “For a terrorist it would offer no significant advantages over an ordinary high explosive or, if they wanted a dirty bomb, a radioactive source. To go to the trouble of spending huge amounts of money on red mercury makes no sense at all.”

Particularly so if all you get for the News of the World’s reported price of £300,000 a kilo is mercury dyed red with nail varnish, which, according to a 1994 investigation by the Russian prosecutor-general’s office, is what was in the “red mercury” sold by Russian conmen throughout Europe and the Middle East after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Others, including Sam Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, disagree, and Barnaby says there is evidence that the Soviets churned out vast quantities of mercury antimony oxide, the intermediate – and equally elusive - compound from which red mercury is supposedly produced by placing it inside a nuclear reactor. “There’s no doubt that they made a large amount of that stuff. I’ve talked to chemists who have analysed it in East Germany,” he says. “But what they did with it is a mystery.”

Some say the intermediate compound can multiply the yield of explosions and that it was used inside conventional Soviet nuclear weapons or as a rocket fuel additive. Others say the compound was irradi ated in the core of nuclear reactors to produce pure red mercury, capable of exploding with enough heat and pressure to act as a trigger inside a briefcase-sized fusion bomb.

The International Atomic Energy Authority in Vienna takes a different view. “Red mercury doesn’t exist,” a spokesman says. “The whole thing is a bunch of malarkey.”