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mercury cadmium telluride is probably the most terrifying-sounding chemical that I can immediately name an industrial use for

one of the ridiculous nitrogen ones like azidoazide azide or pentazene pentazolate would probably be the most terrifying-sounding ones in general but the former of those has no industrial use (it explodes when you look at it funny) and the latter has never been successfully synthesized in the first place

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