That is COMPLETELY scary! Wow, I would leave it alone. 😮

And I had to use this stuff on my job in a lab. Never told it was explosive.

Thank you Grandpa !  Great channel !

In nature, the only thing that can break a triple nitrogen bond is a lightning bolt.

Highly doubtful vs other real experimenter that made it like E&F, DBX Labs.

Too much wrong structures!

The structure depicted at 0:22 is far from what it should be...
It starts from isocyanogen tetrabromide Br2C=N-N=CBr2 and is reacted with 4 NaN3 (sodium azide) leading to (N3-)2C=N-N=C(-N3)2 making unstable sensitive C2N14.
Part of one side cyclises via N3 and a N atom of the hydrazine N-N link; making a azido-tetrazole-amino group (N3-CN4-N=C(N3)2 what remains C2N14); eventually a second cyclisation could occure  to "stabilize" a bit the unstable molecule leading stil to a C2N14 molecule as (N3-CN4-N4C-N3).

One can see that the generated image at 22 seconds has amongst others 3 C atoms; is said to display a cage  structure; that the weakest link is claimed to be a double pi electron bond between 2 N atoms (while it is about twice as strong than a single one... a hydrazine N-N bond would have been a logical guess for a real chemist.

Also hexa-bicyclo super-strained structure is depicted (you know it is like having a cyclohexane ring with two extreme C linked together) leading so to two square molecule cyclobutane rings sticked by one side... but holding the common bridging as N-N from hydrazine with on one side "ear" C-N and the other C-C ear (hence the faulty 3 C's);
3 N atoms in such a strained configuration is simply not possible; and if ever; the central N-N would have been the weakest link; but hey why stop at one mistake when the story can be an even more unstable elusive card castle... right?

Light from the ceiling doesn't make it explode; E&F or DBXLabs are living examples!
Their test footages and synthesis prove it.

Also their videos are personal ones (in direct persons and view) and not unpersonalized ones (like here that looks like a fake chemistry documentary commercial) with figurants from external videos or IA generated and really out of context.

"Chemists measure how explosive a compound is by how much energy it releases per gram"
--> really?

N#C-C#C-C#N must he the strongest known explosive following your realm; while it is just quite endothermic from its elements and thus release more energy of combustion (deflagration, detonation if mixed with oxydizers) and is simply one of the compounds with the hottest flame temperature (approx 4500°C) in pure oxygen.

So heat of reaction based on energy of formation and of reaction or heat of combustion defines sensitivity...OH boy!

--> Probably never heard of:
- impact sensitivity,
- heat sensitivity,
- friction sensitivity
- activation energy, energy sensitivity in Joules (by sparks and static electricity).
Obviously not.

At 1:56 the structure has changed and now you have a backbone of alcenic C=C core nature; but with that impossible to get more than 4× the azide group (mimicking tetrachloethylene Cl2C=CCl2... thus becoming the unstable (C2N12 aka (N3-)2C=C(-N3)2) ... so btw magically 2 N atoms disappeared from the 14 N count.

At 18:23 the structure changed again...
Now N3-(N4)-N3 with a central cyclo-tetraaza-butene hyperstrained and not possible but also due to N=N  one N3 cannot be there because it makes 4 links on 1 N atom (3 sigma simple links --> 2 for the ring and 1 to hold the -N3) and 1 pi double bond).

This discrepancy causes another problem into the tetraaza ring thus closed by a chargeless N atoms that has only a valence 2 (a linking electron has disappeared)!

--> Also now 2 extra N atoms have disappeared from the 14N count and fall to 10...
Without speaking about the 2C atoms absolutely needed to get so high in N%, to reach large molecules what allows to be more dense (what is an essential requisite for higher VOD (velocity of detonation) and pCJ (detonation pressure Chapman-Jouguet).

--> You could have added that this C2N14 compound is so unstable that it looses mass simply by recording a YT video on it and writting about it... in about 3 times longer video; it would have self destructed and blown away the screen of the viewers...

How lucky we are... it is fictional, right?

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This video doesn't speak of the other major discovery of hyper powerful N6 molecule made one or two years ago (also by an energetic German research team) what is N3-N3 or hexaaza-benzene; only stable when very cold; decomposing even faster under the slightest stimuli or if brought at too high - but still quite negative temperarure slighly over liquid nitrogen - temperature (<-195°C).

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But this IA or author don't push the limits of possibilities of densities and detonics parameters for 100% N high energetic materials like
• octaaza-cubane (N8),
• polydiazene (-N=N-)n,
• nitrogen triazide (N(-N3)3 or N10),
• hydrazine tetrazide ((N3-)2N-N(-N3)2 or N14)
• ...

With simple chemical knowledge I can without much troubles predict the densities of those and their energy per mole or gram and their sensitivitiy (that will be extremely low (thus very sensitive)) for all; but to my feeling N8 will be the worst of all due to hyperstrained energy stored into the cube structure; maybe even aza-prismane N6 would be worst; knowing that hydrocarbons are armless right; but benzene prismane (HC)3#(CH)3 or (H-C-C-H)3 a caged structure consisting of 2 cyclopropane rings for the top and base and 3 cyclobutane rings for the 3 side faces; happens to detonate while passing from unstable prismane form to more stable form benzene one...So heat of formation from C and H2 is very positive making its combustion in O2 very heat generating (very negative from pr-C6H6 vs normal benzene).

If only constituated from N atoms, it would probably turn into a "stabler" cyclo-N6 or diazide N3-N3, and decompose then to an even more stable 3 N2(g)(molecular form as N#N (very stable dinitrogen with triple bond)).

Voilà!
That's all Folks!

Regards,

PHZ
(PHILOU Zrealone from the Science Madness Forum and many former A.O.L newsgroups related to chemistry and energetics)

Look at all the N atoms and U know 💥

Kommt es an Jodsticksoff heran?😮

This stuff is crazy , say this ten times fast 😅by looking at it basically makes it lt go boom 😅

That stuff detonates when you look at it the wrong way.

Does it dissolve in petrol? if it did my old car would really go with a bang.

Good work, GW. I'm a hazardous waste chemist and find your work fascinating. You know your stuff. Thanks for your work and enthusiasm

I have made it years ago, just for fun. Nice bang.

@Explosions&Fire made this in his back yard in Adelaide Australia

Ke peligroso el NTN

Azidoazide Azide, sounds like the leader of a terror group.

Xe O3 explose bien aussi!

This video would have really benefited from an actual human narrator who knew how to pronounce chemical names. Also, I've seen amateur chemists on YouTube detonating 180kg of the compound

Jeff Dunham has a puppet named Walter.

Es lo esta acumulando la tierra pa explotar el TN explocivos

AI