Re: The Best 2018-06-26
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 6:32 pm
It goes with FOOF on a list of chemicals I want absolutely nothing to do with.Storel wrote:Ah, yes, good old chlorine trifluoride. For those unfamiliar, yes, it really does burn all those things -- see "Sand Won't Save You This Time" for hilariously-written details.Dave wrote:As long as Pickle doesn't start playing around with ClF3. If she does, all bets are off... that stuff will burn rock, sand, concrete, asbestos, and test engineers. Don't stand down-wind.Opus the Poet wrote:And there is nothing growing in Canyon de Chelly that will burn.
Of course, there are quite a lot of fluorine compounds that any sane person would put on such a list. But some are worse than others. When your ice cube catches fire and the smoke dissolves things... it's time to be somewhere else.