Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

Every time this comes up I keep thinking of making a T-shirt with “Have a FOOF Day” on one side and F2O2 on the other.

His Things I Won't Work With are always hilarious as well as educational. And they really make you wonder about the chemists who actually work with these substances, especially when their notes include things like "violent explosion" but they kept trying.

Yes, it’s something that has been posted many times, but many people miss out a little gem from this article.

Near the end of the article there is a link for another blog post, discussing the energies of nuclear fusion and fission. It’s from 2012 but I highly recommend it if you want to dive in into the energy calculations of fusion (and a proposed alternative:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/

433 kcal per mole, not per molecule I was going to say it seemed a bit breaking of reality

One of the best science writers ever. I've laughed at every one of his articles.