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jbt7493

its really cool that we discovered glass which is the material that doesnt have any chemical reactions with anything in the universe very useful for doing chemistry due to being able to put things in it to contain chemical reactions and never having it react with the things that are in it due to it being completely and entirely unreactive to every chemical

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sabakos

Posts from a 17th century chymist who's about to have their bones dissolved by hydrofluoric acid.

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e-102

HYDROFLUORIC ACID MENTION‼️

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DICKS OUT FOR HYDROFLUORIC ACID!!!

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e-102

NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!!!

More cursed chemistry! Check out this spicy boi:

This is chlorine trifluoride, one of the most reactive, corrosive substances known. This stuff will light asbestos on fire, as well as sand, glass, many metals, and oh, it will also ignite water. Basically if you start a fire with this stuff, your only option is to let it burn out, because anything you put on it will just burn up itself (though if it’s in an enclosed space you can flood the space with like argon or whatever). Apparently a spill of almost a ton of this stuff burned its way through a foot of concrete and 3 feet of gravel before it stopped.

This is when I get to introduce everyone to some of my favourite science writing ever: Things I Won't Work With by Biochemist Ph.D. Derek Lowe, featured on Science dot org.

and many others.

It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers,