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The article says it's better for the environment (maybe less energy consumption or waste products?)... Either way, that's one way to get permission for the usin

• isoprophlex 3y ago
  Hehe, well, to add some nuance: P4 is incredibly nasty stuff, and you definitely don't want a domestic terrorist or whatever buffoon with a lust for chemical destruction to get a hold of this stuff, so the whole batch of P4 sitting at that shut down factory was due to disappear into the proper channels of destruction. But it's a small world, so a guy knew a guy, and we were good to pick up a material quantity that wasn't too felonious, but sizable enough to keep the somewhat underfunded research going. I got out of chemistry for being too clumsy, a hazard for myself and others. I left without shoes one day, having dropped a big flask with incredibly smelly and volatile amines on my feet. They smell like essence of fish, so, the shoes were a total loss. I kept a spare pair in the lab ever since. Another one, that doesn't really go anywhere: Working with tertiary butyl lithium was always super fun. It's this crowded group of negatively charged carbon that is forced, against its will, to bond to a positive lithium ion. The thing is pretty eager to react, but funnily enough it's always dissolved in flammable solvents. If you spritz a little bit out of your syringe, it immediately goes woosh. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9VNaUY-ri4&pp=ygUYdGVydCBidXR5bCBsaXRoaXVtIGZsYW1l https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9VNaUY-ri4&pp=ygUYdGVydCBidXR...