discussion with a friend yesterday about extremely unpleasant chemicals produced a very cursed idea:
what would happen if you reacted diborane, a very strong reducing agent, with chlorine trifluoride, a very strong oxidizer?
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@gardevoir chlorine trifluoride is the thing that the literal actual nazis decided was too dangerous to use as a chemical weapon, the thing that will burn sand, water, carbon dioxide, and pretty much anything you would think to use to put out a fire
diborane is the thing that NASA rocket scientists in the 50s and 60s at the height of the space race (the people who built rockets using fuming nitric acid and dimethylhydrazine) decided was too dangerous to use as a rocket fuel.
-F
@gardevoir so yes, mixing these two things is one of the most inadvisable things you can possibly do
even having both of them in the same building is one of the most inadvisable things you can possibly do
even having either of them in your possession is
-F
@gardevoir @Felthry I was trying to remember that title!
Also yay, it's on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612/mode/2up
Probably the gender of the day. https://botsin.space/@genderoftheday/105115355078825043
@Felthry I don’t know much about chemistry, but this reads like something out of Ignition!, followed by “and then there was no rocketry lab left”