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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: 0.199s | 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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1. HPsquared ◴[01 Apr 25 02:09 UTC] No.43542103[source]▶
Off topic, but I Googled "argon powder" and the AI overview thing hallucinated that the term means metal powders used for 3D printing, stored under argon to prevent oxidation. There are no actual results using the term in that sense, as far as I can tell.

Google search should not be returning an incorrect hallucination that sounds plausible ahead of the actual search results. It's so confidently wrong. Google is SO BAD NOW at searching for specific expressions.