• mindbleach
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    6 months ago

    Personal favorite: FOOF.

    You run a mixture of oxygen and fluorine through a 700-degree-heating block. “Oh, no you don’t,” is the common reaction of most chemists to that proposal, “not unless I’m at least a mile away, two miles if I’m downwind.”