You can also use potasium permagnate, sugar and mag powder to do the same thing, just ignition is a bit unsure as you use finger nail glycerin or glycol coolant as the igniter...........can take from 15 seconds to 5 minutes to ignite.
Iodide crystals and sugar and mag filings and a drop of water......... but then you have to really be able to walk fast......and the wonderful purple cloud it makes is really cool, although stinks bad.....
Thermite works on cutting temp glass too... but that stuff is just crazy to work with.......
An explosion would crack/break the glass, so you want to avoid a detonation.....you want pin pointed high temp fire, not a focused or shaped H.E. charge.........
Now, if we were cutting steel (making a hole or cutting through a beam).... you would use glass (small shot glass, martini glass or magaretta glass is perfect) or copper pounded into a cone and a home made plastique H.E. to make the glass cut the steel in a shaped charge using the glass as a melted spall....like a plasma jet.
But I digress.......
Fourth of July around my place tends to be fun.....we usually shoot anvils up in the air with black powder launchers....
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