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Explosions also combine several of these.

• logfromblammo 10y ago
  One of my old chem profs would flick little bits of dry NI3 into the lecture hall once per year. It makes a sharp popping sound and leaves a slowly-disappearing stain, and won't kill your students.
• Florin_Andrei 10y ago
  > Explosions also combine several of these. Pretty much all of them actually, in some ways. But it's always a bad sign when you're experiencing various tastes as a result of an explosion.
  • Bartweiss 10y ago
    On which note, Lowe's piece on ClF3 is a great example of explosions producing lots of different experiences. It contains one of my all-time favorite sentences: > It’s bad enough when your reagent ignites wet sand, but the clouds of hot hydrofluoric acid are your special door prize if you’re foolhardy enough to hang around and watch the fireworks. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...