Nitrogen Triiodide is Impressive

November 7th, 2006
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
Nitrogen Triiodide is some unhappy stuff. Touch it gently with a feather and it reacts violently. How did they get that stuff on those pads to begin with?  I’m pretty sure they didn’t pour it out like salt. Ah, watching the video again they mention that it is only this unstable when dry. Makes much more sense.

I can’t think of any use for something this unstable. Even the great Wikipedia lists no uses.

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  1. ken macke said, on November 14th, 2006 at 12:03 pm

    The only use for nitrogen triiodide is general mischief. Most of this mischief starts in the high school chem lab, where the ingredients, iodine and ammonium hydroxide are ususally on hand. Mixing these two chemicals, and collecting the precipitate on a filter paper will yield a wet brownish-red paste. It only becomes unstable when it dries. Then, mischief will insue.

  2. ryan said, on November 14th, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    Nitrogen Triiodide must have broken the link. I couldn’t get the video to play.

  3. Travoli said, on November 14th, 2006 at 4:18 pm

    Looks like the page is there but not the video, weird. Yeah Ken, I wouldn’t want to be around this stuff and highschool kids at the same time.

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