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Natsu on Feb 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things I Won't Work With: Chlorine Azide

Older ones, yes. Newer ones use nitroguanidine and other less-toxic stuff according to the article you linked to.

That said, we owe a lot to the brave chemists who manage to figure out how to deal with all these scary chemicals. Even if some of them are probably insane:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won...

I love how the chemical can be written as FOOF, which is strangely reminiscent of the bogus F00F C7C8 instruction that could crash old Pentiums.

derleth on Feb 27, 2011 [–]

> I love how the chemical can be written as FOOF, which is strangely reminiscent of the bogus F00F C7C8 instruction that could crash old Pentiums.

Or the sound a small explosion might make, which is the first thing most people would think of. ;-)

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