28 August 2015

"So volatile that a mosquito landing on it will make it explode"


 This is why you won't find any nitrogen triiodide sitting around in the woods of northern Minnesota.

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  1. My high school science teacher, told us when he was in University, they coated the lab floor in a thin layer of this. They could not get rid of the ghostly purple foot prints it left on the floor ;)

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  2. This guy laid it on too thick. We always used it in a thin acetone solution. perfect for doorknobs and such.

    Alas, iodine is one of the substances that is no longer generally available. /checks usual sources... nope not even as a K or Na salt/ There is one source, but I don't want to bust it as it is used as a thyroid anti-radiation prophylactic.

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  3. How on earth do they handles this stuff without exploding it? What about shipment? Does it need air to be explosive?

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  4. You may have noticed it was in blotter paper. When wet it's stable.It's a precipitate, so one makes it, racks off the excess, and pours the remainder through the paper.

    Then it being fairly dangerous once dry, I suspect they set in place and waited for it to dry.

    The canonic tool I've see for demonstrating it is an puffy ostrich feather.

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  5. Take look at
    C2N12 ...
    Azidoazide Azide
    http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/09/things_i_wont_work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less.php

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  6. I totally enjoyed the humor in their closing paragraph. Thanx, Aleksejs.

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  7. @aleksejs
    my favorite has always been
    http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time
    note the new host

    Wish we could talk him into a book.

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