Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by HPsquared on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:15PM (#29776168)

FOOF, the compound that makes things go "foof".

Are there any other onomatopoeic chemicals out there?

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by xaviex on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:13PM (#29776556)

Not an onomatopoeia but Sodium Citrate, which is used to create cheese that melts Into a smooth consistency, is na3c6h5o7 or NaCHO.

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by kragen on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:08PM (#29777236)

That would be NaOC(CO2H)(CH2CO2H)2, though, not NaCHO. NaCHO2 is sodium formate. NaCHO would involve deprotonating formaldehyde to get a CHO- ion you could make a sodium salt of. This might be possible, but definitely not in water.

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by tyingq on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:24PM (#29776618)

Wikipedia has a list of funny chemical names, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_wit...

My favorite is probably Arsole, which has an apt diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Arsole.p...

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010) by lostlogin on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:50AM (#29778362)

Oh wow. That’s goatse spectrum too.

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