Chemical of the Week

Saravanth · Post by **Saravanth** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:23 am

because I had the gif at hand...

Post by **Error** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:03 am

Dioxygen Diflouride
(Alt.: FOOF, Satan's Kimchi)

""Being a high energy oxidizer, dioxygen difluoride reacted vigorously with organic compounds, even at temperatures close to its melting point. It reacted instantaneously with solid ethyl alcohol, producing a blue flame and an explosion. When a drop of liquid 02F2 was added to liquid methane, cooled at 90°K., a white flame was produced instantaneously, which turned green upon further burning. When 0.2 (mL) of liquid 02F2 was added to 0.5 (mL) of liquid CH4 at 90°K., a violent explosion occurred."

Reacts with just about everything. Oxygen, nitrogen, silicon (glass), metallics, organics... but is marginally safe to store in plastic.

So... Bad. Not used for anything, really.

Ivan2006 · Post by **Ivan2006** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:45 am

imagine switching some bottled water with this stuff.

Post by **Error** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:09 pm

It doesn't look similar enough to fool anyone...

...but it goes off violently enough it'd make alovely improvised grenade.

CMA · Post by **CMA** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:16 pm

Commander Error wrote: organics... but is marginally safe to store in plastic.

Aren't plastics organic molecules? I will never know because Chem 2 is the highest chemistry I need to take lelelellelel.

Post by **Prototype** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:18 pm

CMA wrote:
Commander Error wrote: organics... but is marginally safe to store in plastic.
Aren't plastics organic molecules? I will never know because Chem 2 is the highest chemistry I need to take lelelellelel.

Yes.

Professor Fenway · Post by **Professor Fenway** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:26 pm

They generally contain organic polymers, which are generally long carbon chains with other things on them. Organic just means it has carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, or hydrogen; it doesn't mean that it came from a living thing.

It doesn't react with carbon (so it says). If i'm right, it will not react with plastic made mostly of carbon chains, but it will react if it has too many other compounds (Oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) So that's what he means.

Source: AP chemistry.

Iv121 · Post by **Iv121** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:31 pm

As always Im glad I never had to study chems at any point in my life !

Post by **Error** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:35 pm

Apparently, the first chemist to seriously study the stuff destroyed his university lab twice and lit it on fire once in the first month.

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:55 pm

Yeah, so he never did get around to actually study the stuff.

cannonfodder · Post by **cannonfodder** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:05 pm

no shit sherlock

Shadowcatbot · Post by **Shadowcatbot** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:18 pm

Archduke Daynel wrote:Yeah, so he never did get around to actually study the stuff.

Sure he did. He learned three ways not to contain it.

Archduke Daynel, PhD · Post by **Archduke Daynel, PhD** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:27 am

No he was too busy burning down his lab to even care about the chemical.
Jeez does no one get sarcasm/irony/general jokes any more?

Iv121 · Post by **Iv121** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:52 am

Tiel does >.> .

cats · Post by **cats** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 6:05 am

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