Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (2013)

Re:Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less... by mrguyorama on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:03PM (#32610771)

Nigel of the NileRed youtube channel has just the other day disputed this claim. Diffusion isn't very fast and the wind would have to have been going 15mph or more. He says he wants to create this compound and test it, as he has done with a few other "horrific smell" compounds.

However, there's a running theory that he has kinda burnt out his nose working with certain compounds, as he seems mostly unphased by smelly chemicals that other people very much struggle working with.

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less... by elmomle on Friday August 26, 2022 @06:01PM (#32613244)

In the thioacetone TIWWW, Lowe says that "the workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable". It sounds like in higher concentrations it just overwhelms and numbs a strong reaction people have at even extremely low concentrations.

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less... by seszett on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:43PM (#32612525)

> the wind would have to have been going 15mph or more

15 mph really isn't much for wind, though? In fact that's about how much wind there is where I am right now, so that doesn't strike me as an unreasonable condition.

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Re:Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less... by mrguyorama on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:53PM (#32612639)

The specific claim he disputed was "smelled one mile away almost instantly" which would be a much bigger claim.

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