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Hexanitrogen Energies(science.org)
23 points by thomasjb 5 days ago | 6 comments
  • robin_reala2 days ago

    Derek references his “Things I Won’t Work With” set of posts. If you haven’t read them before you’re in for a treat: https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22Things+I...

    • MisterTea2 days ago |parent

      This sums it up nicely:

      "Hexanitro? Say what? I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio."

      https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

  • perihelions2 days ago

    Also

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285875 ("Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6 (nature.com)"—27 comments)

  • sleighman7482 days ago

    I’m assuming this would not be a practical explosive material to work with, based on what I read, unless you were working off-world.

    • MarkusQ2 days ago |parent

      If you weren't to start with, you might well be by the end (i.e., momentarily). Or pieces of you would be at any rate; ΔV to the Kármán line is only a few km/s.

  • ChrisMarshallNY2 days ago

    > Plenty of other hypothetical polynitrogen species turn out to have basically no barrier at all by comparison, which is why they’re still hypothetical, and you will be too if you try to make them on any kind of scale.

    Classic. I love this guy's sense of humor.