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Tom of the YouTube channel "Explosions & Fire" actually made this stuff in his shed, its nowhere near as atrociously unstable as Derek implies it is.
by nibbleshifter 4y ago
Tom of the YouTube channel "Explosions & Fire" actually made this stuff in his shed, its nowhere near as atrociously unstable as Derek implies it is.
- CamperBob2 4y agoI wish he had access to instrumentation that could verify that he actually made what he was trying to make. One of the comments makes a fairly convincing case that he ended up with a different compound that, while still violently explosive, was much less sensitive. Given that he DGAF that his scale doesn't work, he probably isn't interested in building an NMR spectrometer in his shed.
- nibbleshifter 4y agoFor his cubane project he has been getting stuff sent off for NMR, obviously he can't send a hilariously sensitive energetic off for that. I'm genuinely unsure what other product would be made if you react isocyanogen tetrabromide with sodium azide, you could get a mix of azide and bromide on the isocyanogen, but that's super unlikely (bromide and azide double displacement is favourable reaction in this case, the bromine being more than happy to fuck off with the sodium) and you would get a distinct bromine cloud off any detonation or deflagration of the product.