August 28, 2015 10:49 am PDT
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Nitrogen triiodide: "So volatile that a mosquito landing on it will make it explode"
The Royal Institution posted this demonstration of an explosively unstable substance called nitrogen triiodide. I love the purple smoke it makes.
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