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Comment on Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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> fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature. But that's how you get it to react with oxygen to make a product that's worse in pretty much every way.

That kind of prose is why I love reading this chap's stuff.

There's something reminiscent of Terry Pratchett's style to Derek's "Things I Won't Work With" series.

This makes the rounds here every so oft, and I always read it again, seconded ...

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