Is there a good archive of this kinds of "not normally taught" chemistry things some where?
Nitrogen Triiodide (2016)
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#12Oh wow! Growing up my chemical engineer uncle would come out on the Fourth of July and dump a bucket of stuff on the road in front of his house. A while later when it was dried he'd have us roller blade and skate board down the road to setup all the little explosions. It was a total blast. He refused to tell anyone what the compound was, but assured us it could be easily made. It has to be this stuff.
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#13Is there a good archive of this kinds of "not normally taught" chemistry things some where?
If you were not "normally taught" how to do this stuff then you probably shouldn't do it.
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#14Is there a good archive of this kinds of "not normally taught" chemistry things some where?
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-brom...
And his whole series of "Things I Won't Work With"
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#15This does bring back fun memories! My favorite application was to make the game of ping pong a little more random. Small amounts scattered across the table would result in puffs of purple smoke and the ball changing direction.
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#16Is there a good archive of this kinds of "not normally taught" chemistry things some where?
Science Madness forums may be an okay place to find better references than I'd know about. If you just want to see some fun chemistry and not necessarily take it that seriously or learn to do it yourself, there's some good people on youtube. Some of my favorites are Extractions&Ire (and his sister channel), NileRed and Stryopyro. Some people in some of those communities can probably point you in the right direction for whatever you're looking for.
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#17I almost got banned from high school chemistry for making this (UK 1970's). Made it during break in middle of Chemistry lab while the teacher was out, and sadly was rather sloppy - got it over the floor, threw damp filter paper covered in it into the waste paper basket (which later self-detonated), etc.
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#18I made this in high school, shortly after my AP Chemistry exam in 1992. I left it out to dry under the fume hood, and my teacher, not knowing what it was, moved it and BOOM! Fun times.
Reminds me of my AP chem class 16 years later. We were always mixing stuff up in the lab. Good times.
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#19> There is no risk of terrorists using NI3 because anybody who made it in sufficient quantities to do serious damage would succeed only in blowing themselves up: those who do so are humorous, not terrible. ...not gonna say more, but, buried in the info and video there IS actually an idea for overcoming this nasty limitation (if you can mostly live up with "quasi-random detonation time", which could be acceptable for…
I think I know what you mean. Probably impractical for nefarous use still. When he said "chemists can't do experiments on it" I thought "why not?"
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#20Is there a good archive of this kinds of "not normally taught" chemistry things some where?
I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but Shakhashiri's "Chemical Demonstrations" series includes Nitrogen Triiodide among many other things: https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Demonstrations-Handbook-Teac...
Edit: It looks like the ScienceMadness page references the exact location: https://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Nitrogen_tri...