Here's a video of a guy making this stuff in jars and styrofoam cups in a dirty possum infested shed in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz4d7RQB6Y
Apparently it's not as bad as they say.
Apparently it's not as bad as they say.
From the article:
"We're talking high-nitrogen compounds here (a specialty of Klapötke's group), and the question is not whether such things are going to be explosive hazards. (That's been settled by their empirical formulas, which generally look like typographical errors). The question is whether you're going to be able to get a long enough look at the material before it realizes its dream of turning into an expanding cloud of hot nitrogen gas."
Clearly that's because he had the good sense not to put it near a spectrometer.
You can make the nastiest thing imaginable but there's pretty hard limits on how much chemical energy can blow up in your face per milligram of reactants. On the other hand, even if you think something is "better behaved" if there's enough of it it will still do horrible stuff if anything goes wrong.
> Apparently it's not as bad as they say.
Maybe so, but people also do incredibly stupid shit on YouTube for attention, so maybe not.
You clearly never had the pleasure of discovering ElectroBOOM.