Almost enough to make you forget the boring parts of Chemistry

From in the Pipeline (on Triazadienyl Fluoride)….

Now this is a fine substance. Also known in the older literature as fluorine azide, you make it by combining two other things that have already made my “Things I Won’t Work With” list. Just allow fluorine (ay!) to react with neat hydrazoic acid (yikes), and behold!

Well, what you’re most likely to behold is a fuming crater, unless you’re quite careful indeed. Both of those starting materials deserve serious respect, since they’re able to remove you from this plane of existence with alacrity, and their reaction product is nothing to putz around with, either.

The rest of the post details how they made the stuff without getting killed. I imagine that nobody got bored in the process.

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