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Old 09-April-2008, 07:49 AM
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I thought I would share this website I stumbled on, http://pipeline.corante.com/archives...ont_work_with/
a list of "interesting" chemicals. How about a substance that "burned its way through a foot of concrete floor and chewed up another meter of sand and gravel beneath" Fun stuff, do you think it would clear the sludge from my radiators??
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It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.
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It's a liquid with a boiling point of around 80 C, and I'd like to shake the hand of whoever determined that property, assuming he has one left.
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You get a volatile liquid that boils at about -16 C and freezes at -167.3, which exact value I note because the authors nearly blew themselves up trying to determine it. The liquid detonated each time it began to crystallize, which is certainly the mark of a compound with a spirited nature.
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You can isolate the stuff, it seems, as long as you handle it properly. It turns out that brutal treatments like, say, touching it with a spatula, or cooling down a vial of it in liquid nitrogen - you know, rough handling - make it detonate violently.
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So, what do you store it in. It reacts with both organic and inorganics.
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outer space ;-)
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High nickel content metal alloys (it was in he article).
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High nickel content metal alloys (it was in he article).
Busted, I did not read it. Thanks
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