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Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y h

by woah 4y ago

Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y Apparently it's not as bad as they say.

ajackfox 4y ago
I knew this was going to be Explosions & Fire before I clicked. This guy is completely insane and I love it.
- Beltiras 4y ago
  Apparently not as insane as Klapötke et al
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mcguire 4y ago
I can't remember; does he have any problems with yellow chemistry in that video? :-)
TakeBlaster16 4y ago
> Apparently it's not as bad as they say. Clearly that's because he had the good sense not to put it near a spectrometer.
christophilus 4y ago
I feel like I just got put on an FBI watchlist for clicking that.
- deleted 4y ago
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- hilbert42 4y ago
  Yes, likely that's all of us here. ...But they're probably not worried, they'd know our planned actions would be once-off and self-limiting and never come to fruition. ;-)
tablespoon 4y ago
> Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y > Apparently it's not as bad as they say. Maybe so, but people also do incredibly stupid shit on YouTube for attention, so maybe not.
- jsolson 4y ago
  The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube.
  - dtgriscom 4y ago
    /s?
  - arinlen 4y ago
    > The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube. You clearly never had the pleasure of discovering ElectroBOOM. https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom
Scoundreller 4y ago
Oh c’mon, it’s Australia. They have other marsupials there.
- cratermoon 4y ago
  Also, C2N14 is probably less dangerous than several indigenous Australian animals.
  - Natsu 4y ago
    Or trees... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
    - hilbert42 4y ago
      I can attest to that. And it 'grabs' you when you least expect it.
emeraldd 4y ago
"Things I Won't Work With...." and the person who decides to work with it runs a channel named "Explosions&Fire" ... From the article: "We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here (a specialty of Klapötke's group), and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors). The question is whether you're going to be able to get a long enough look at the material before it realizes its dream of turning into an expanding cloud of hot nitrogen gas." Seems legit to me ...
wisty 4y ago
Notice how quantity is the main thing that matters with explosives. You can make the nastiest thing imaginable but there's pretty hard limits on how much chemical energy can blow up in your face per milligram of reactants. On the other hand, even if you think something is "better behaved" if there's enough of it it will still do horrible stuff if anything goes wrong.

by woah 4y ago

ajackfox 4y ago

I knew this was going to be Explosions & Fire before I clicked. This guy is completely insane and I love it.

Beltiras 4y ago
Apparently not as insane as Klapötke et al

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mcguire 4y ago

I can't remember; does he have any problems with yellow chemistry in that video? :-)

TakeBlaster16 4y ago

> Apparently it's not as bad as they say. Clearly that's because he had the good sense not to put it near a spectrometer.

christophilus 4y ago

I feel like I just got put on an FBI watchlist for clicking that.

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hilbert42 4y ago
Yes, likely that's all of us here. ...But they're probably not worried, they'd know our planned actions would be once-off and self-limiting and never come to fruition. ;-)

tablespoon 4y ago

> Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y > Apparently it's not as bad as they say. Maybe so, but people also do incredibly stupid shit on YouTube for attention, so maybe not.

jsolson 4y ago
The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube.
- dtgriscom 4y ago
  /s?
- arinlen 4y ago
  > The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube. You clearly never had the pleasure of discovering ElectroBOOM. https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom

Scoundreller 4y ago

Oh c’mon, it’s Australia. They have other marsupials there.

cratermoon 4y ago
Also, C2N14 is probably less dangerous than several indigenous Australian animals.
- Natsu 4y ago
  Or trees... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
  - hilbert42 4y ago
    I can attest to that. And it 'grabs' you when you least expect it.

emeraldd 4y ago

"Things I Won't Work With...." and the person who decides to work with it runs a channel named "Explosions&Fire" ... From the article: "We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here (a specialty of Klapötke's group), and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors). The question is whether you're going to be able to get a long enough look at the material before it realizes its dream of turning into an expanding cloud of hot nitrogen gas." Seems legit to me ...

wisty 4y ago

Notice how quantity is the main thing that matters with explosives. You can make the nastiest thing imaginable but there's pretty hard limits on how much chemical energy can blow up in your face per milligram of reactants. On the other hand, even if you think something is "better behaved" if there's enough of it it will still do horrible stuff if anything goes wrong.