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Equestria’s economy commoditized death.
The Military-Industrial-Arcano-Tech complex obliged.
and it can’t be put out by normal means.
And set aflame anyone who comes into contact with it.
true.
I’m a business major — I speak money, not science
Chlorine trifluoride will burn right through your portfolio, and then the concrete floor underneath it.
Good idea, i’m going to play a game of europa universalis 4 now.
I’m a business major – I speak money, not science
i uh, i’ll just show myself the door
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I had to look that up, but thank you for inspiring me to do so. Quite a fun read, any of those articles! :)
@Background Pony #79BF
Even the mid-Cold War ones didn’t, at least for the crucial bits, namely krytrons and/or sprytrons. They are the component(s) responsible for detonating the high-explosives used in nuclear weapons, because they can quickly and reliably handle very large currents, with only a modest grid voltage pulse needed for conduction.
if you know anything about science and magic you should know… use earth pony magic to grow wood and then turn it into charcoal
That’s called an “atomic bomb.” Perhaps unfortunately it doesn’t need magic to work, just early 20th Century electronics (the first ones didn’t even use transistors).
I don’t know about Fallout Equestria, but trimethylaluminum ignites instantaneously on contact with air and burns at over six thousand degrees. Accidents involving less than a liter of stuff eat through two feet of reinforced concrete in seconds. Oh, and the flames give off energetic ultraviolet radiation that will fry your retinas and corneas and leave you permanently blind if you look in the direction of the reaction.
It’s expensive and, as you might expect from that description, extremely difficult to handle and store safely. But imagine someone using something (soap, maybe?) to make a gel form that would work like napalm. Very very fast, very very energetic napalm.
Or, if you want stuff that happens faster, talk to any chemist nicknamed “Lefty” as the result of trying to synthesize the hypothetical compounds dinitroacetylene or hexanitrocyclopropane. Remember: making something that will go “bang” is only half the trick. The other half of the trick is making something that won’t go “bang” until it’s supposed to.
Basically a laundry list of entries from the Things I Won’t Work WIth blog.
Dioxygen difluoride
can you send me a link to a youtube video on this “FOOF” substance
Most chemists, if they know it’s stored in a building, won’t go near the building!
i’m not exactly a chemist either, i like quantum and particle physics more.
my first response to the pink cloud was a substance that messed with the strong nuclear forces
then i thought chlorine.
lets make some balefire (CFL3) warheads!lets cross science and magic even more, it’s cool!
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Very. The primary industrial use of CFl3 is nuclear fuel (re)processing, producing uranium hexafluoride.
You’d have to be more specific, i.e. corrosive to what material? Chlorine trifluoride is already ridiculously hypergolic. I’d rather gargle heavy metal salts than try to play with that stuff! lol
That said, plain old HF, hydrogen fluoride, is pretty nasty. Add a little hydration, and you’ve got an acid that will eat through glass, and destroy living tissue quite quickly, notably corneas.
Two other Über-nasty poisons I would compare dimethylmercury to are nickel tetracarbonyl, with an LD 50 of 3 ppm, and possibly methyl fluorosulfonate, LC 50 of about 5 ppm.
tl;dr version: any of these will definitely fyay up your day.
Ooh, careful, Icarus. You’re crossing the streams of science and magic! ;)
DISCLAIMER: I am not a chemist. Electrical engineering is my thing. Chemistry is often quite important to what I do in my profession, though. Ain’t science great? :3
Edited because: I'm derping out, I need to eat.
@BigBuggyBastage
is it even possible to bind an atom of uranium to chlorine triflouride
and can you make chlorine gas even more corrosive
then we would just have the spells themselves, not any sort of lame weaker-versions
Oh, gotcha. I thought we were going after real-life nasty chemicals. lol
actually i just watched a video on mutagenic substances and hydrogen peroxide is one… so i’d say peroxide
thorium… it’s the only mutagenic substance i know of despite it only being lightly mutagenic
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Alex Trebeck, What is Taint?