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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Looks like a German dog whistle to me. 444 is be used as a substitute for DDD what is used short for germany to the German and that SA is associated with nazis we all should know.

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

Any guesses on what this could be? It's explosive, highly flammable, toxic, and aerosolized

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So far haven't found any that have SA on the bottom, but here's a list of fucked up shit that might be in the shipping vehicle next to you:

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/4135/is-there-any-substance-thats-a-4-4-4-on-the-nfpa-diamond

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butyl_hydroperoxide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butyllithium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaborane(9)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diborane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomethylhydrazine

Also, from stack user Matt_Black

I think chlorine trifluoride deserves a mention

One of the issues with relying on published NPFA triangles to judge the answer to this question is that some of them don't seem to be very reliable given the known properties of compounds.

According to one of its suppliers ClF3 has a rating of 4-0-3. So it would not count very highly here. This seems about as inaccurate as describing dimethylmercury as only mildly toxic. I mean how in hell can it have a zero on the fire score and only a 3 on the toxicity score?

Here is how John D Clarke describes it in Ignition (his history of rocket fuels):

It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water—with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals—steel, copper, aluminum, etc.—because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal–fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

So for example, while the compound itself is arguably not flammable, absolutely everything else is flammable in its presence. And given that those reactions tend to produce far more benign compounds like HF gas, it can hardly be considered as only a 3 on the toxicity scale either (though, perhaps, if you are dead already from the corrosive or explosive effects of its reactions, the toxicity is not a major concern).

To put it mildly, ClF3 is one of the most dangerous compounds that is commercially available on any reasonable metrics and damn those published NPFA triangles.

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

A web search found a few substances that are close, but none that match exactly:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Highly concentrated dihydrogen monoxide.

But for real though, I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~Trump’s BS.~~

The GOP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

There's a rocket fuel that fit's that description, forget it's name though.

I keep thinking of a failed rocket launch in China that crashed into a village spraying red mist everywhere and the whole town had to be evacuated.

*It might not have been nearly as bad as I remember; it crashed in the outskirts of town and only released a little nitrogen tetroxide, as a snack.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pretty sure its nitrogen tetroxide which is used with hydrazine as a hypergolic propellant in rockets that hate living things.

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Nitrogen-tetroxide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant

*but we only get 3/12 points on the total death bingo card.