| Dr. Lowe's Things I Won’t Work With is on the top 10 best blogs out there. What an utter joy! His writing style is a breath of fresh air for the sleepy journal-club style articles. He is funny, informative, and interesting. A great addition to the world of science advocates. I love his blog. Some favs: Can’t Stop the Nitro Groups :"... this new paper’s introduction includes the phrase “In our continuing efforts to introduce as many nitro groups associated with a tetrazole ring as possible. . .” and to most organic chemists that’s roughly equivalent to saying something like “In our continuing efforts to spray as much graffiti on the snouts of salt-water crocodiles as possible. . .”[0] Sand Won't Save You This Time: "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."[1] Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane: "Hexanitro? Say what? I’d call for all the chemists who’ve ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio." [2] Dioxygen Difluoride (aka FOOF, aka "Satan's Kimchi")[3] [0]https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/08/15/ca... [1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa... [2] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2011/11/11/th... [3] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th... |