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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 21:02:11 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

Article implies that hexanitrogen is the perfect rocket fuel. Except later on it admits that unless it is cooled in liquid nitrogen, it detonates at the clank of a falling molecule.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/06/27/perfect-rocket-fuel-no-fires-no-chemicals-just-energy-49569
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  The Perfect Rocket Fuel: No Fires, No Chemicals. Just Energy.
  
  Hexanitrogen is a newly synthesized molecule composed entirely of nitrogen atoms, making it the first known neutral polynitrogen species other than N₂. It stores a large amount of energy in its strained bonds and decomposes cleanly into nitrogen gas, offering potential as a high-energy, non-polluting propellant — though its extreme instability at room temperature remains a major limitation. This, plus other explosive trivia!

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