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Re:Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen ... by a3w on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:43AM (#44309002)
Hexanitrogen? Nice, but Octanitrocubane is what GURPS promised for TL9.

Found in the warhead table, yes: this is "cleaner" explosives, but military is not spending billions to safe the environment. But get a higher TNT-equivalent per kilogram.

Re:Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen ... by rbanffy on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:15AM (#44309631)
How many nitrogens do we need to have a chemical primary for a fusion weapon?
Re:Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen ... by bell-cot on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:51AM (#44310957)
I suspect you'd need about 0.013 M total, based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf#Deuterium_fusion
Re:Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen ... by rbanffy on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:17PM (#44311663)
Looks like a very tiny lump of metallic nitrogen.

Eventually someone will make this.

Re:Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen ... by AstralStorm on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:57PM (#44312403)
Definitely not, the primer also needs to be somewhat stable.

This is one reason that even azides are not used in this capacity anymore, and metallic nitrogen would be orders of magnitude less stable. Not to mention requiring special conditions to not explode, like a laser trap or extreme pressures.

Re:Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen ... by rbanffy on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:11PM (#44312940)
Whatever the conditions, if attained, would lead to a virtually undetectable fusion bomb. Nukes for everyone, yay!

A visible amount of the thing wouldn’t even need the fission part.