Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) • Hacker News Board

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by pupdogg » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 1:55 AM UTC

Oh, then you will love DimethylMercury https://youtu.be/h049Hgfk-BI

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by xaviex » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:13 AM UTC

HPsquared wrote: post #5

FOOF, the compound that makes things go "foof". Are there any other onomatopoeic chemicals out there?

Not an onomatopoeia but Sodium Citrate, which is used to create cheese that melts Into a smooth consistency, is na3c6h5o7 or NaCHO.

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by dark-star » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:17 AM UTC

My chemistry teacher warned me to stay away from people who would use the ° sign for Kelvin ("90°K") or leave it out when talking about degrees centigrade ("-180C")... this guy does both

;-)

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by tyingq » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:24 AM UTC

HPsquared wrote: post #5

FOOF, the compound that makes things go "foof". Are there any other onomatopoeic chemicals out there?

Wikipedia has a list of funny chemical names, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_wit...

My favorite is probably Arsole, which has an apt diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Arsole.p...

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by crzysdrs » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:26 AM UTC

A fictional short story by Charles Stross that is a fitting companion piece to this article. An amusing discussion about using extremely dangerous substances as rocket fuel.

https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by geerlingguy » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

seattle_spring wrote: post #10

delgaudm wrote: post #2

Previously (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.

If you like this style of writing, I have a treat for you: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... (if you haven't already read it. Fascinating stuff.)

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by geocrasher » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:29 AM UTC

This sounds very nearly almost as toxic as dihydrogen monoxide- a truly deadly substance[0] that must be used very carefully.

[0]https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm

[Edit] tough crowd tonight.

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Post by Stevvo » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

geocrasher wrote: post #18

This sounds very nearly almost as toxic as dihydrogen monoxide- a truly deadly substance[0] that must be used very carefully. [0] https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm [Edit] tough crowd tonight.

Funny joke if you're 12. Which I guess is why everyone heard it from their middle-school chemistry teacher.

Re: Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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Post by YawningAngel » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:51 AM UTC

dark-star wrote: post #13

My chemistry teacher warned me to stay away from people who would use the ° sign for Kelvin ("90°K") or leave it out when talking about degrees centigrade ("-180C")... this guy does both ;-)

He doesn't, he consistently omits the degree symbol. It's used in a direct quote