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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
- pfdietz 3y agoJan 3, 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775910
- cwillu 3y ago13 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148425 10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546450 7 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282788 6 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148007
- sroussey 3y agoEvery time this comes up I keep thinking of making a T-shirt with “Have a FOOF Day” on one side and F2O2 on the other.
- daly 3y agoOne of the best science writers ever. I've laughed at every one of his articles.
- NKosmatos 3y agoYes, it’s something that has been posted many times, but many people miss out a little gem from this article. Near the end of the article there is a link for another blog post, discussing the energies of nuclear fusion and fission. It’s from 2012 but I highly recommend it if you want to dive in into the energy calculations of fusion (and a proposed alternative: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/
- TomMasz 3y agoHis Things I Won't Work With are always hilarious as well as educational. And they really make you wonder about the chemists who actually work with these substances, especially when their notes include things like "violent explosion" but they kept trying.
- jhylands 3y ago433 kcal per mole, not per molecule I was going to say it seemed a bit breaking of reality