Breaking Bad IV – can a little crystal blow up a room?

Highly purified mercury(II) fulminate orthorhombic crystals in a glass dish

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On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare

In Breaking Bad, Walt is a high school chemistry teacher turned criminal producing amphetamine (crystal meth) to sell on the black market. At one point his partner, Jesse, gets swindled and beaten up by a psychopathic gangster called Tuco. Walt confronts Tuco and offers him some more crystals but insists on being paid immediately. Tuco starts to get nasty … but Walt has a plan.

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