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

I love this series of blog posts, especially since I have studied a bit of organic chemistry and loved that lab work (a very one-sided love affair).

As an old "fan" of rocket fuels in general and peroxides in particular, I still giggle a bit nervously at the chemical formula FOOF...

Edit: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won... "If the paper weren't laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you'd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic."

bjelkeman-again on Feb 27, 2011 [–]

Read the comments in the linked article. You'll enjoy it.

berntb on Feb 27, 2011 | [–]

I did, when I read it originally a year ago, or so. They are often as good as the blog post.

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