Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
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#2Previously (x8) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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#3Reminds me of this classic (also In the Pipeline): https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
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#4Previously (x8) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's really, really good. Short but well-written.
The one on chlorine trifluoride (linked in OP, but fixed link) is also really good: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
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#5FOOF, the compound that makes things go "foof".
Are there any other onomatopoeic chemicals out there?
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#6Previously (x8) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's really, really good. Short but well-written. The one on chlorine trifluoride (linked in OP, but fixed link) is also really good: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
I 2nd this - never heard of this before and I loved the 3 mins it took to read.
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#7Previously (x8) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's really, really good. Short but well-written. The one on chlorine trifluoride (linked in OP, but fixed link) is also really good: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
>coping with a metal-fluorine fire
Good lord
Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)
#8My personal favorite article from Derek Lowe about a chemical that isn't actually all that dangerous... but you still likely don't want it around.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
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#9Following a link in the comments gets you to the PDF of Streng's 1962 paper, with some good notes. Having a Pyrex cylinder of this stuff sitting in anything other than a cryostat 20 miles from civilization sounds like a very bad idea.
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jklein2/O2F2.pdf
If I wanted to synthesize this stuff, I think my preferred method would be SCP-294
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#10Previously (x8) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Glad it was reposted a ninth time. I had never seen it, and it led me down an immensely interesting rabbit hole.