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I don’t know if anyone has confirmed this explicitly, but it’s a likely assumption that Ignition! went back in to print after many years of unavailability precisely because of all the interest stirred up by this post.
Paperback or Kindle available from Amazon.
This is from Derek Lowe's blog "In The Pipeline" on the pharmaceutical industry via chemistry, and it's the best. It's bounced around a couple hosts over the years, and sadly this latest incarnation on science.org doesn't preserve the tags from the original. Nevertheless, look up "Derek Lowe things I won't work with" for a great and hilarious series of posts on "fun" chemicals. For example: * Peroxide Peroxides: http…
The MSDS for this stuff [1] is full of fun tidbits: > Read: nobody is dumb enough to eat this stuff > > [1] https://www.boconline.co.uk/en/images/chlorine-trifluoride_t...
This is from Derek Lowe's blog "In The Pipeline" on the pharmaceutical industry via chemistry, and it's the best. It's bounced around a couple hosts over the years, and sadly this latest incarnation on science.org doesn't preserve the tags from the original. Nevertheless, look up "Derek Lowe things I won't work with" for a great and hilarious series of posts on "fun" chemicals. For example: * Peroxide Peroxides: http…
This comment section full of plutonian chemistry and sketchy rocketry is the perfect place to mention Charles Stross' A Tall Tail [0], a short sci-fi story covering both. [0] https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
The MSDS for this stuff [1] is full of fun tidbits: > Read: nobody is dumb enough to eat this stuff > > [1] https://www.boconline.co.uk/en/images/chlorine-trifluoride_t...
I think we can agree, at least, that the intersection of "people smart enough to devise a way to ingest this without premature combustion of the head" and "people dumb enough to do it" is probably n<1
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The "How Not to Do It" category is also pretty good: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/how-not-to-do-it . My favorite is probably https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-do-liquid-nitr... , on what happens when a pressured liquid nitrogen tank blows up due to the pressure relief valve being closed. I'm not sure why the "Things I Won't Work With" category/tag isn't working on the new platform; all othe…
Looks like manually editing the URL works: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
People have gone to jail for this.
EDIT: To be clear, I am commenting as a way of venting over the ridiculous state of affairs, not because I agree or think that science.org will send the feds after you.
Also see Ignition, a book on the history of rocket fuel development, which is a great read: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
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Looks like manually editing the URL works: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
I am fairly certain it is not legal to edit the URL to get to a page on a website. People have gone to jail for this. EDIT: To be clear, I am commenting as a way of venting over the ridiculous state of affairs, not because I agree or think that science.org will send the feds after you.
https://www.quora.com/Is-chlorine-trifluoride-ionic
[shrug]