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Hexanitrogen Energies
- perihelions 1y agoAlso https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285875 ("Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6 (nature.com)"—27 comments)
- robin_reala 1y agoDerek references his “Things I Won’t Work With” set of posts. If you haven’t read them before you’re in for a treat: https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22Things+I+Won%E2%80%99t+Work+With%22 https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22Things+I...
- MisterTea 1y agoThis sums it up nicely: "Hexanitro? Say what? I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio." https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
- sleighman748 1y agoI’m assuming this would not be a practical explosive material to work with, based on what I read, unless you were working off-world.
- MarkusQ 1y agoIf you weren't to start with, you might well be by the end (i.e., momentarily). Or pieces of you would be at any rate; ΔV to the Kármán line is only a few km/s.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago> Plenty of other hypothetical polynitrogen species turn out to have basically no barrier at all by comparison, which is why they’re still hypothetical, and you will be too if you try to make them on any kind of scale. Classic. I love this guy's sense of humor.