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[weaselfilms]

Here is an account of chemistry made explosive and vivid that I have discovered:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/

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[morbane]

'Ranking my equipment in terms of its shrapneliferousness is not something that's ever occurred to me, I have to say.' Hah! Most entertaining.

[morbane]

'These Bavarian rowdies have prepared a series of salts of the unnerving azidotetrazolate anion. As they point out, the anion was described back in 1939 (in what I hope was a coincidental association with the outbreak of the Second World War), but its salts are “rarely described in the literature”. Yes indeed! People rarely spray hungry mountain lions with Worcestershire sauce, either, come to think of it.'