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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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267 points PebblesRox | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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stuartjohnson12 ◴[31 Mar 25 13:54 UTC] No.43535096[source]▶
> Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don't think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this - ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons.

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s0rce ◴[31 Mar 25 17:23 UTC] No.43537448[source]▶
Some chemical suppliers seem to have autogenerated items, some/many are non-sense and I guess they just hope that you find something and they can make it? I found the example below a while ago but they have since removed it.

https://www.nanochemazone.com/product/argon-powder/

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ahazred8ta ◴[31 Mar 25 19:25 UTC] No.43538777[source]▶
The argon powder is still there. Great for Apr01. https://www.nanochemazone.com/argon-powder/ -- https://web.archive.org/web/20250331192328/https://www.nanoc...
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LorenPechtel ◴[31 Mar 25 21:39 UTC] No.43540277{3}[source]▶
Is argon powder actually impossible? Of course it couldn't exist as pictured but below 80K does anything prohibit it?
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1. s0rce ◴[31 Mar 25 21:45 UTC] No.43540333{4}[source]▶
No, its not impossible. You can make it in the lab without too much difficulty if you have liquid nitrogen. Just not sold like this and you can't really contain it in a practical vessel as the pressure at room temperature would be too extreme, you store liquids or compressed gases.