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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 bob778 »

graderjs wrote: post #32

The article was good, without the "Morons" at the end directed at Hangzhou Sage chemical company. It didn't need that, and it reeks a little of racism to pretend they're morons for working with FOOF, considering how much he lauded respect on Streng for doing so. The article already had good comic effect without needing to do it at someone else's expense whether it was racist or just cruel and dismissive.

I think the pint is that it’s clearly a fake listing as no one could safely handle 1kg of the stuff.

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Post by MathCodeLove »

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.

I appreciate the attempt at humor. Try to make a less polarizing joke next time.

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Post by andrewflnr »

R0b0t1 wrote: post #31
Zak wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> SCP-294 I'm curious as to what a "safe distance" is when requesting a cup of anti-water. Reacting 8 ounces of antimatter with a similar amount of matter releases energy on the order of a large thermonuclear bomb.

A lot of it comes out as neutrinos though.

Does it? I thought it was pretty much pure gamma radiation.

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Post by kristjansson »

imglorp wrote: post #21
pupdogg wrote: post #11

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

Curiously, the MSDS indicates SilverShield gloves but does not specifically call out latex gloves as permeable and counter-indicated. This seems like a disastrous error of omission. https://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/99021.htm

> Skin: Causes skin irritation. May be fatal if absorbed through the skin.

I’m sure the actual users read these things thoroughly, and the second point is called out above, but that ___really___ buries the lede.

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Post by triclops200 »

intuitionist wrote: post #34
hokumguru wrote: post #8

My 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...

I think my favorite from the series is this one, about a high-nitrogen compound so wildly unstable that it detonated when the lab turned on the spectrometer: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

There's a great video on producing and testing that substance: https://youtu.be/-Sz4d7RQB6Y

Interestingly, it's more stable than most online sources give it credit for

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

IHLayman wrote: post #33

“ No, elemental fluorine has commanded respect since well before anyone managed to isolate it, a process that took a good fifty years to work out in the 1800s. (The list of people who were blown up or poisoned while trying to do so is impressive).” The link intrigued me to click but unfortunately it 404ed. That led me to hunt down the list, and I found this snippet on an Royal Society of Chemistry page [0]: “Sir Hump…

http://web.archive.org/web/20160328234548/http://lateralscie...

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Post by petschge »

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.

Ah you are one of todays lucky 10000.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Post by sbierwagen »

andrewflnr wrote: post #43
R0b0t1 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of it comes out as neutrinos though.

Does it? I thought it was pretty much pure gamma radiation.

Low energy electron-positron annihilations produces photons. Higher energy annihilation produces all sorts of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation
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