Giving FOOF a run for its money...

Giving FOOF a run for its money...


Originally shared by Winchell Chung

OH HECK NO!!
A chemical explosive that is beyond unstable.
Derek Lowe (of Things I Will Not Work With) had unkind things to say about C2N14
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/01/09/things_i_wont_work_with_azidoazide_azides_more_or_less
but the chemical pictured below is more like N20. Which means it is about six orders of magnitude more unstable.

The only thing worse would be N26 from the E. E. "Doc" Smith's space opera Spacehounds of IPC
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=665
https://twitter.com/digitalraven/status/935994600329707521

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