« BackHexanitrogen Energiesscience.orgSubmitted by thomasjb 5 days ago
  • robin_reala 2 days ago

    Derek references his “Things I Won’t Work With” set of posts. If you haven’t read them before you’re in for a treat: https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22Things+I...

  • perihelions 2 days ago

    Also

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285875 ("Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6 (nature.com)"—27 comments)

    • sleighman748 2 days ago

      I’m assuming this would not be a practical explosive material to work with, based on what I read, unless you were working off-world.

      • MarkusQ 2 days ago

        If you weren't to start with, you might well be by the end (i.e., momentarily). Or pieces of you would be at any rate; ΔV to the Kármán line is only a few km/s.

      • ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago

        > Plenty of other hypothetical polynitrogen species turn out to have basically no barrier at all by comparison, which is why they’re still hypothetical, and you will be too if you try to make them on any kind of scale.

        Classic. I love this guy's sense of humor.