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> Here we present the room-temperature preparation of molecular N6 (hexanitrogen) through the gas-phase reaction of chlorine or bromine with silver azide

Hmmm, chlorine and bromine - off to a good start - then we come to silver azide.

"Azide" immediately rings all my Derek Lowe bells, and yeah... it's exactly what you'd expect.

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That would be this one: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

> 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.

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