[mirimir]

What a trip. They brute forced the sucker.

I have been a chemist, and also played with explosives as a child. So it's my experience that C≡C bonds are very unstable. I mean, liquid HC≡CH (acetylene) must be diluted with acetone, and stored in tanks packed with diatomaceous earth, to keep it from falling apart explosively. A lot like nitroglycerine, really.

And AgC≡CAg (silver acetylide, with the Ag-C bonds being almost ionic) is a damn fine primary detonator. They used to use it in party poppers and cigarette/cigar "loads". But you could use it instead of lead azide or mercury fulminate, and it's much easier to make. But it's also much more expensive.

So anyway, I can't imagine that you'd want gram quantities of this stuff. Even if you could prepare it.

Edit: A gram of silver acetylide would punch a hole through 15-20 gauge mild steel. Uncontained. Just sitting there, in a little pile.