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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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