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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Read the Wikipedia article on Radon. That should do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eh, FOOF is so unstable that it's very hard to make enough of it to do any real damage. It's also just very hard to make. It's only remotely stable at cryogenic temperatures, and is so reactive that without an inert atmosphere it will rapidly decay into something more stable. Granted, it will do so by oxidizing the molecular oxygen in the air (which is as insane as it sounds) and release a ton of energy in the process but assuming you don't already have a bunch of it, you won't be able to create enough of it fast enough to do any meaningful damage without a specialized laboratory and associated equipment.

Chlorine Triflouride however, can be made in your kitchen, and is just stable enough that, assuming you've taken some precautions, it's possible to accumulate enough of it to immolate yourself in one of the worst possible ways.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chlorine trifluoride, go on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It’s rated 4/4 in everything but flammability.

“Very toxic, very corrosive, powerful oxidizer, violent hydrolysis”

Pretty spicy, but we can do better than that.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I’m only just barely smart enough to occasionally realize that when the smart people start quietly losing their shit over something I can’t possibly understand, I should have long since been gone by the time they start losing their shit over whatever magic has now prematurely doomed the universe to its inevitable heat death.

Or I could just drink my face off. That works, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

OMG explosions and fire just did an episode on this. He went to a lab in Germany and they made some...

Release 9 days ago.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-g5-LJ5KZM

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

When I was a kid my parents wanted to open up an existing cavity under our house to build a basement, and that never happened because it (E: was discovered during the building inspection that it) was full of Radon. I guess I'm desensitised (but possibly slowly decaying a little faster than I should be..).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But why did your parents have an underground Radon cavern?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Tax benefits

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok here we go. Will be back with an update, but just in case, I don't consider myself particularly tough

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can try taking a look through the different forms of torture or execution humans have used...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

That's not creepy or weird, that's horrifying.

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