Comment on The Periodic Table according to astronomers

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fluorine fires have entered the chat.

  Oh shit, someone call the fluorine fire department to save the chat!

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    call the fluorine fire department

    Sometimes there is no such department, especially for the most vigorous fluorinating reagents like chlorine trifluoride: Sand Won’t Save You This Time (Derek Lowe)

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile.

      Yeah, that’s a big fat nope from me 😬

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