Thermite reaction

[flatline]

Hey.

I'm doing a school assignment, a chemistry project; thermite reaction.

The only downside is, that we must require the chemicals ourselves, and here in this country, it's not possible to get any of those by purchasing them from the local pharmacy.

So, how do I get iron oxide and aluminum -powder?

Iron oxide is rust, right? So can it be created as following:

Water to a box, salt into the water, iron item to the salted water (and 9V battery's negative and positive wires attached to the iron item? -I hear this has some effect to make the iron to rust faster?)?

And how to make aluminum powder? Simply drilling through an aluminum plate a thousand times would take a while, so is there a way to get aluminum powder, or to do so with not so much efford?

And for the "fuse", what to use? It takes about 2400 Celsius to make the thermite ignite, so it would require magnesium "fuse", wouldn't it? - How to get magnesium? Or is there another way to ignite the thermite?

Thanks in advance.

[Connor xv]

I think you should go with potassium permanganate (KMnO4) and glycerol/glycerin, this should go in excess of the temps you need and gives a great purple flame.