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Offline Borek

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how to design a new explosive?
« on: February 07, 2012, 01:31:53 PM »
Give sticks and balls to a 10-years old:

http://www.gizmag.com/ten-year-old-creates-molecule/21357/
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Re: how to design a new explosive?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2012, 04:15:13 AM »
I would say the opposite: by keeping the 10 year olds and computational chemists out of it.

That compound will not exist
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Re: how to design a new explosive?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2012, 11:19:02 AM »
Yeah that's why computational chemistry is an iffy field in some ways to me.

Just because you can build it in the software, doesn't mean you can synthesize it.
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Re: how to design a new explosive?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2012, 11:21:20 AM »
even if it does exist, ring strained N-O single bonds will mean the compound decomposes around 100C.  A good explosive needs twice that or more.
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