Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride

Wow. After 3 years of ChemEng, the only thing we've avoided completely is hydrofloric acid. FOOF makes HF.....

I can't possibly begin to imagine what this stuff is really like.
 
agentrfr said:
Wow. After 3 years of ChemEng, the only thing we've avoided completely is hydrofloric acid. FOOF makes HF.....

I can't possibly begin to imagine what this stuff is really like.
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have never heard of FOOF in spite of doing a fair amount of fluorine chemistry. However, something like that will definitely decompose to HF when coming into contact with anything containing water!
 
So if you have to keep this solid at well below zero how do you transport it?
 
That means that it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile. It’s been used in the semiconductor industry to clean oxides off of surfaces, at which activity it no doubt excels.
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:D
 
As usual I didn't read all the OP's links because tl;dr.

But ... are there any youtube clips????
 
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Swa said:
So if you have to keep this solid at well below zero how do you transport it?
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Transport it?!

TRANSPORT IT?!

LOL...:D

[video=youtube;zAlNrtcPCLw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAlNrtcPCLw[/video]
 
Picard said:
As usual I didn't read all the OP's links because tl;dr.

But ... are there any youtube clips????
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Some long things are worth a read. ;)

60 year old experiment...I doubt that anyone recorded it for youtube. ;) The chemist was probably also more focused on not dying than making videos of it.
 
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