Holy shit fours on blue AND yellow, AND it’s an oxidizer? My guess is some kind of halogenation agent, likely fluorine based. The lack of flammability with those stats makes me think it’s an inorganic compound, probably some wretched fluorine abomination.
Chlorine trifluoride! Nasty, NASTY shit. Guess which industry I worked in as safety!
Edit: I remembered this quote about ClF3 from John D. Clark’s book “Ignition!” and wanted to share. For the non-scientists, hypergolic means it’ll ignite on contact with another substance without an outside energy source, like a spark.
It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.
Hah! You get two signal words with GHS: caution or danger. Caution is low stakes, where you might get skin irritation or maybe a mild burn. Danger is supposed to clue you in that it will fuck you up, but there’s no indicator of magnitude of fuck you up. Will it just give you a bad burn or will it melt your skin off while intercalating with your DNA?
I always wanted a third “oh helllll no” category for the really awful substances. For things like tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (it’s a straight 4-4-4) or Osmium tetroxide.
Same dude. Like signal word “Fuck” for the spiciest of chemicals that really probably shouldn’t exist in the first place that are desperately trying not to exist
Here’s my favourite warning, can you guess what it is?
Holy shit fours on blue AND yellow, AND it’s an oxidizer? My guess is some kind of halogenation agent, likely fluorine based. The lack of flammability with those stats makes me think it’s an inorganic compound, probably some wretched fluorine abomination.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride
Probably related to this, very fun column to read.
Seems like it would definitely not have a 0 in red?
But it was a great read and I’m glad you posted it.
Oxidizers aren’t typically flammable themselves and only react with fuels.
Chlorine trifluoride! Nasty, NASTY shit. Guess which industry I worked in as safety!
Edit: I remembered this quote about ClF3 from John D. Clark’s book “Ignition!” and wanted to share. For the non-scientists, hypergolic means it’ll ignite on contact with another substance without an outside energy source, like a spark.
Angry water.
Yeah it basically is, also while it’s not flammable itself, it makes almost everything it touches ignite. Even the very unburnable things
I think “Danger” might be putting it lightly…
Hah! You get two signal words with GHS: caution or danger. Caution is low stakes, where you might get skin irritation or maybe a mild burn. Danger is supposed to clue you in that it will fuck you up, but there’s no indicator of magnitude of fuck you up. Will it just give you a bad burn or will it melt your skin off while intercalating with your DNA?
I always wanted a third “oh helllll no” category for the really awful substances. For things like tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (it’s a straight 4-4-4) or Osmium tetroxide.
Same dude. Like signal word “Fuck” for the spiciest of chemicals that really probably shouldn’t exist in the first place that are desperately trying not to exist
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If I’m to understand [email protected] correctly, it’s something that’s:
Extremely hazardous,
non flamable, Extremely unstable, Reactive to water
And if ox means oxidising, reacts to exposure to oxigen.
I thought Lithium, but that catches fire and this is non-flammable.
I haven’t a clue what this could be, but now I’m curious.
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