"Things I Won't Work With...." and the person who decides to work with it runs a channel named "Explosions&Fire" ...

From the article:

  "We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here (a specialty of Klapötke's group), and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors). The question is whether you're going to be able to get a long enough look at the material before it realizes its dream of turning into an expanding cloud of hot nitrogen gas."

Seems legit to me ...

I knew this was going to be Explosions & Fire before I clicked. This guy is completely insane and I love it.

Apparently not as insane as Klapötke et al

> Apparently it's not as bad as they say.

Clearly that's because he had the good sense not to put it near a spectrometer.

Notice how quantity is the main thing that matters with explosives.

You can make the nastiest thing imaginable but there's pretty hard limits on how much chemical energy can blow up in your face per milligram of reactants. On the other hand, even if you think something is "better behaved" if there's enough of it it will still do horrible stuff if anything goes wrong.

I feel like I just got put on an FBI watchlist for clicking that.

Yes, likely that's all of us here. ...But they're probably not worried, they'd know our planned actions would be once-off and self-limiting and never come to fruition. ;-)

I can't remember; does he have any problems with yellow chemistry in that video? :-)

> Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y

> Apparently it's not as bad as they say.

Maybe so, but people also do incredibly stupid shit on YouTube for attention, so maybe not.

The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube.

> The video makes it quite clear that he has a degree, soooo, clearly he's not doing stupid shit on YouTube.

You clearly never had the pleasure of discovering ElectroBOOM.

https://youtube.com/c/Electroboom

/s?

Oh c’mon, it’s Australia. They have other marsupials there.

Also, C2N14 is probably less dangerous than several indigenous Australian animals.

Or trees...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

I can attest to that. And it 'grabs' you when you least expect it.