Indeed I do: OF2 is discussed at length - and there is, for _Nicolai_'s benefit - a description of an incident in which several tons of the stuff breached the container. The author of Things I won't work with mentions finding running shoes useful "in these situations".
Do you have a copy of Ignition? FOOF, or cryogenic LOX - F2 sounds interesting.
The "running shoes" comment and several tons setting concrete on fire is in regard to ClF3. FOOF is only available in small quantities, 1kg is a lot to make. Hence I still say, "unless it's available in ton quantities, I think ClF3 is worse".
Ignition is a ridiculously expensive book to buy, I haven't checked libraries yet.
Had I known about that blog before picking my degree, then I'd definitely have picked Chemistry over Botany!At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature. (And I thought that they were kidding about the roof of the Chemistry department...)
They're never kidding about the roof of the Chemistry department, or that shed that lives in the car park so its contents don't live where the people work, or the part where the fire alarm goes off and one of the fire engines goes directly to the car park and starts hosing down the shed instead of the building because more people would die if it got hot than if the building burned down.
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Do you have a copy of Ignition? FOOF, or cryogenic LOX - F2 sounds interesting.
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Ignition is a ridiculously expensive book to buy, I haven't checked libraries yet.
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Had I known about that blog before picking my degree, then I'd definitely have picked Chemistry over Botany!At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature.
(And I thought that they were kidding about the roof of the Chemistry department...)
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I'm fairly sure that they were kidding about the postgrad who over-ordered his sodium and threw the excess into Whiteknights Lake, though.
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