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FOOF?

• virtue3 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxygen_difluoride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxygen_difluoride
  • impendia 6y ago
    And for a singularly entertaining account: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th...
    • ineedasername 6y ago
      Yes, specifically remarkable is that at 0.2 ml, it created what was described as a "violent" explosion. Not just an explosion, which seems like it would be remarkable for any quantity so small, but a violent one. And oh by the way that was all of the way down at 90 Kelvin.
• dredmorbius 6y ago
  Given the HN / tech context, possibly the Intel Pentium F00F bug, a floating-point precision error, though that is eff-nil-nil-eff not eff-oh-oh-eff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug