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  • Having talked about this same questiom with a family member who was in the field of nuclear engineering, what he told me basically boiled down to this:

    It is fairly accurate, but not actually as detailed as it seems. There are several major obstacles that variously will stump you, get you killed, and/or put you on the radar of a national security apparatus.

    But yeah, although not exactly “easy,” the basics apparently aren’t that complicated to work out if you know the science.














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    3 months ago

    From the peroxide-peroxides article:

    Instead of being locked in a self-storage unit with two rabid wolverines, why not three? Instead of having two liters of pyridine poured down your trousers, why not three? And so on - it’s a liberating thought. It’s true that adding more oxygen-oxygen bonds to a compound will eventually liberate the tiles from your floor and your windows from their frames, but that comes with the territory.

    I’m in tears from this stuff and I know fuckall about chemistry.