I was just looking at a 1950s paper at work about how some nutjob made a poly(alkene peroxide) (styrene, I think?), isolated the fucker, and lit it on fire just to see what would happen. those were the days. Nowadays some lawyer with a chemistry minor decides that our hand sanitizer bottles need big red PEROXIDE FORMER labels and 1-year expiration dates (true story, though no longer the case). Now, I’m not saying that we should be allowed to make polyperoxides for the express purpose of lighting them on fire… unless 😳👉👈…?
I was just looking at a 1950s paper at work about how some nutjob made a poly(alkene peroxide) (styrene, I think?), isolated the fucker, and lit it on fire just to see what would happen. those were the days. Nowadays some lawyer with a chemistry minor decides that our hand sanitizer bottles need big red PEROXIDE FORMER labels and 1-year expiration dates (true story, though no longer the case). Now, I’m not saying that we should be allowed to make polyperoxides for the express purpose of lighting them on fire… unless 😳👉👈…?