vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (26 May 2018 19:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Thomas Jones-Low (26 May 2018 20:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff David Shaw (26 May 2018 20:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (26 May 2018 20:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff shadow97218@xxxxxx (27 May 2018 10:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Bruce Johnson (27 May 2018 22:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Michael Houghton (27 May 2018 22:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Kelly St. Clair (27 May 2018 22:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Bruce Johnson (28 May 2018 15:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff shadow@xxxxxx (30 May 2018 07:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (30 May 2018 10:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Bruce Johnson (30 May 2018 16:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff David Shaw (28 May 2018 00:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Phil Pugliese (28 May 2018 11:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff David Shaw (26 May 2018 20:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Thomas RUX (26 May 2018 22:32 UTC)
Re: vargr muscles and stuff Rob O'Connor (27 May 2018 01:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Tim (27 May 2018 04:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (27 May 2018 10:02 UTC)

Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff shadow97218@xxxxxx 27 May 2018 10:46 UTC

On 26 May 2018 at 16:03, Thomas Jones-Low wrote:

> On 5/26/2018 3:48 PM, Timothy Collinson wrote:
>
> > I needed to name some TL4 explosives (on Pysadi, harvesting howood)
> > and came up with quadroglycerine - it was supposed to be a sort of
> > homage to triticale being turned into quadrotriticale for Star
> > Trek's Trouble With Tribbles episode.  But is the nature of
> > glycerine such that that's just completely ridiculous?
> >
>
>  Welll, there is Nitroglycerin aka trinitroglycerine, and
>  Trinitrotoluene (aka
> TNT). Glycerine doesn't have the attachment for additional nitrogen
> groups.
>
>  TNT on the other hand. In theory, since the core of toluene is a
>  benzene ring,
> you can attach up to 6 NO2 groups. Of course these are unstable, and
> adding more makes the explosive more powerful. So QNT would be really
> scary stuff.

You want scary?

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

More than 5 times as powerful as TNT. And it decomposes into nitrogen
gas (so no toxic fumes).

Then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_gauche_nitrogen
which is 50% more energetic.

For that matter, metallic hydrogen (if it turns out to be metastable)
would be around 50 times as powerful as TNT. Of course, all those
very energetic hydrogen ions encountewring oxygen (and nitrogen) in
air would boost things a fair bit.

If you want something less drastic try
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octanitrocubane